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India's outdated laws hamper fight against terror, says US
NEW DELHI: The US, which labeled India as one of the most terror-afflicted nations, said the main hurdle before New Delhi’s counter-terror efforts are the country’s “outdated” legal system and law enforcement.
“Although clearly committed to combating terrorism, the Indian government’s counter-terrorism efforts remained hampered by its outdated and overburdened law enforcement and legal systems,” said the State Department’s annual Congressionally mandated Country Reports on Terrorism for the year 2009.
It also noted that the existing laws are not sufficient to deal with the terror menace. “In the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks of 2008, India’s Parliament has introduced bills to restructure its counter-terrorism laws and established a National Investigative Agency (NIA) to create a national-level capability to investigate and prosecute acts of terrorism,” it said.
The state department said India remained one of the countries most afflicted by terrorism with over 1,000 deaths attributed to terrorist attacks in 2009, primarily in Kashmir and other parts of India. The state department said that Jammu and Kashmir, historically victim to the largest number of foreign terrorist attacks, saw casualties decline significantly from previous years.
“The ministry of home affairs reported that 71 civilians and 52 members of the security forces were killed in terrorist-related violence in the state through November,” it said.
The Congress mandated report said that home minister P Chidambaram reported to Parliament in December that 700 foreign insurgents were active in the state, down from 800 earlier in the year. “Ethno-nationalist insurgent groups remained active, particularly in the Northeast, it said, adding that ULFA, a domestic terrorist group banned by India in 1990, continued a campaign of bombings in Assam resulting in 27 fatalities this year.
On December 2, security forces arrested ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa near the Bangladesh border,” it said, adding the Assam government offered talks and free passage to ULFA leaders in a bid to make peace with the group.
LeT’s emergence post-26/11 attacks has added a new dimension to the terrorist threat landscape as the Pakistan-based terror outfit’s activities have made clear its deepening commitment to undertake “bold and mass-casualty operations” against US and western targets, the report said. It also said the core of al-Qaeda based in Pakistan continue to pose a major threat to the US.
On the LeT, the report said that since the 2008 Mumbai attack, analysts have deepening concern that it could evolve into a genuine global threat.
“LeT operative David Headley and others indicate the diversity, mobility, and versatility of self-selecting recruits whom organisations can pick to meet strategic goals. Organisations may set these goals, but their training resources and recruits are increasingly modular and interchangeable,” the state department said.
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