Terrorism in India

When ever terrorists strike India the relationsthe recent terror attacks disrupted normal life for
between Pakistan and India would be strained. This isseveral days in Mumbai. Infact, the whole country
due to the evidences provided by the intelligencewas in a state of shock as these attacks resembled
authorities and the nabbed terrorists that these9/11 attacks in the USA.
terrorists have links with Pakistan. But pakistanUnfortunately, India does not have proper crisis
government denies the allegations every time. Themanagement infrastructure. It took nearly nine and
fact is that these Islamic terrorists were trained byhalf hours for the national security guards officials to
Pakistan's inter service intelligence authorities asreach the affected spots to control grenade, riffle
confessed by one of the terrorists nabbed recentlyattacks. Due to lack of proper combating equipment
in Mumbai.three indian police service officers, two major
On November 26th two groups of terrorists causedgenerals of army besides many other security
wide spread devastation at about five locations in thepersonnel lost their lives while fighting with the
financial capital of India. They targeted the highlyterrorists in the recent Mumbai attack. There are also
crowded locations like the Mumbai railway station andcriticisms against intelligence authorities of India for
three five star hotels. The affected people includeneglecting warnings from the terrorist groups. Failure
citizens from various developed nations such asof coast guards, naval intelligence, lack of political will
America, United kingdom, Germany, etc. This attackto solve this menace, etc are cited as the most
also lead to the loss of property of several crores ofimportant reasons for the recent Mumbai attack.
rupees.This attack has opened the eyes of Indian
According to some experts a small group of Islamicgovernment. The prime minister of India convened an
fundamentalists have been involved in this kind ofall party meeting after the attack to discuss the
extremist, militant. and terrorist activities throughoutsteps to be taken to prevent such attacks in future,
the world. Even Pakistan too faces this problem moreseveral politicians and officials were asked to quit,
frequently. These Islamic fundamentalists operategovernment decided to open four new security
from different islamic countries by different namesguard hubs in metropolitan cities of India, planning to
like lashkar e toiba, Jehadi, and several other islamicstart a new agency to tackle terrorism namely the
names. Their objective is to create commotion, killfederal investigation agency, security along the
people, etc. They also want to reduce the number ofcoastal regions of India was beefed up, upgradation
foreign tourists visiting India by showing to themof police skills and improving the crisis management
through this kind of extremist acts that India is notinfrastructure were the other major steps taken by
safe. Their most important objective seems to be tothe central government in the after math of Mumbai
prove that India is not a safe heaven forattacks.
investments.It is astonishing to note that a group of terrorists
Due to such terrorists attacks the fundamental rightswith a huge cache of arms and ammunition travelled
of citizens like right to freedom, right to speech, rightin the arabian ocean for several days but was not
to life, etc would be violated. The recent attacks incaught by any security officials. Besides this they
Mumbai also lead to the closure of Bombay stockcould easily enter with grenades, guns, etc into five
exchange for a few days. According to somestar hotels in Mumbai, India's commercial capital. India
experts, the investments too would be affected inhas third largest scientific man power in the world
the long run. Many hotels lost a considerable amountwhich should be utilised effectively to prevent the
of their customers due to cancellation of trips torecurrence of such attacks. All the vital locations
Mumbai thus tourism too would be affected leadingshould have closed circuit televisions and some
to the decrease in the revenues to the governmentadditional personnel should be recruited to monitor
and to corporate hotels. Many schools, colleges andthe suspicious movements both offshore and on
other organisations were closed for some days. Thusshore.