Community policing and strict control over the sale and distribution of explosives and detonators will go a long way in curbing the menace, says Colonel Anil Athale (retd)
The Mumbai bomb blasts of July 13 were a reminder that war declared on us is not over yet. Right at the outset it must be clearly understood that what the terrorists aim at (how so ever improbable it may sound) nothing short of destruction of India as we know it.
No war can ever be won with purely defensive strategy.
The basic Indian approach in this war has been defensive and reactive. We, unlike the Americans, have not even talked of 'disrupting and destroying the terror network'.
This applies not just to terror infrastructure in Pakistan but also within the country. For a long time we even denied that any Indian could be a terrorist.
The basic Indian approach in this war has been defensive and reactive. We, unlike the Americans, have not even talked of 'disrupting and destroying the terror network'.
This applies not just to terror infrastructure in Pakistan but also within the country. For a long time we even denied that any Indian could be a terrorist.
All our actions from increased patrolling of land and sea borders, border fencing, investigation teams, installation of CCTV's and more and more police posts, are all measures that can be classed under 'anti-terror' with very little or no 'counter-terror' component.
It is like a doctor who tells a patient that he only specialises in 'post mortems' and can neither cure nor prevent the patient from illness.
As someone intimately involved in the actions to counter Sikh militancy of 1980s and 1990s, one is haunted by the spectre of repeating the same mistakes again and again.
Let it be clearly understood that Khalistani movement ended when under K P S Gill and earlier under Julio Ribero, India followed a policy of 'bullet for bullet' and ruthless elimination of terrorists
It is like a doctor who tells a patient that he only specialises in 'post mortems' and can neither cure nor prevent the patient from illness.
As someone intimately involved in the actions to counter Sikh militancy of 1980s and 1990s, one is haunted by the spectre of repeating the same mistakes again and again.
Let it be clearly understood that Khalistani movement ended when under K P S Gill and earlier under Julio Ribero, India followed a policy of 'bullet for bullet' and ruthless elimination of terrorists
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