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The meeting is expected to discuss steps to effectively neutralise the two groups to the satisfaction of the international community. It is also expected to discuss the future of hundreds of Islamic seminaries.
The United States has already granted $100 million aid to Pakistan to revamp and reorient the seminaries to incorporate them into the mainstream education.
The meeting has been convened to discuss follow-up action against Jaish and Lashkar to back up the ongoing crackdown against the two along with several fundamentalist and sectarian organisations, Urdu daily Ausaf reported on Monday.
India has demanded concrete action against the two militant groups, blamed for the December 13 terrorist strike on Parliament and violence in Kashmir.
There have been reports in Islamabad of a police crackdown against militant groups in a number of provinces, including Punjab, considered to be the heartland of extremism.
However, Pakistan has studiously avoided official comment on the crackdown.
Reacting to reports of the crackdown on militants, diplomatic sources in Islamabad said though there were uniform media reports about the continuing arrests of militants in a number of provinces, there was no evidence yet of any concrete crackdown in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
"We are yet to see any crackdown in PoK even though there were reports to suggest that a number of arrests have taken place in different parts of Pakistan," they said.
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