India’s Counterterrorism Policy: Tackling Terrorism Within State Boundaries

One of the main features of Indian foreign policy is counterterrorism (CT), since its independence. India shares international borders with several countries, which have in the past been utilized by terrorist groups as safe havens. Some internal factors fanning terrorism are poverty, underdevelopment, unemployment, underemployment, porous borderline, past historical differences due to partition of the country, illegal infiltration, feeling of alienation from the mainstream. September 11, 2001 (9/11) can be termed a watershed in the path of war on global terrorism. This chapter examines India’s response to internal terrorism and the hazards faced by the country.

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National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). (2015). Global Terrorism Database [Data file]. Retrieved from http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd.

Additional Protocol To The SAARC Regional Convention On Suppression Of Terrorism, SAARC/SUMMIT.12/SC.29/2,7Annexure-III.

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