Terrorism

A Problem for India

Index

What is Terrorism Terrorism in MumbaiList of Terror attack in MumbaiVideo

What Is TerrorismA common definition of terrorism is the systematic use or threatened use of violence to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious, or ideological change. 

Terrorism in India, according to the Home Ministry, poses a significant threat to the state. Terrorism in India are basically two types external and internal, external terrorism emerge from neighboring countries and internal terrorism emulates from religious or communal violence and Naxalite–Maoist insurgency . Terror activities involve either Indian or foreign citizens.

The regions with long term terrorist activities today are Jammu and Kashmir, Mumbai, Central India (Naxalism) and the Seven Sister states.

As of 2006, at least 232 of the country’s 608 districts were afflicted, at differing intensities, by various insurgent and terrorist movements. In August 2008, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan has said that there are as many as 800 terrorist cells operating in the country.

Terrorism in India has often been alleged to be sponsored by Pakistan. After most acts of terrorism in India, many journalists and politicians accuse Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence of playing a role. Recently, both the US and Afghanistan have accused Pakistan of carrying out terrorist acts in Afghanistan.

Terrorism in Mumbai

Mumbai has been the most preferred target for most terrorist organizations, primarily the separatist forces from Pakistan. Over the past few years there have been a series of attacks, including explosions in local trains in July 2006, and the most recent and unprecedented attacks of 26 November 2008, when two of the prime hotels, a landmark train station, and a Jewish Chabad house, in South Mumbai, were attacked and sieged.

List of terror attacks in Mumbai•12 March 1993 - Series of 13 bombs go off, killing 257

•6 December 2002 - Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar, killing 2

•27 January 2003 - Bomb goes off on a bicycle in Vile Parle, killing 1

•14 March 2003 - Bomb goes off in a train in Mulund, killing 10

•28 July 2003 - Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar, killing 4

•25 August 2003 - Two Bombs go off in cars near the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar, killing 50

•11 July 2006 - Series of seven bombs go off in trains, killing 209

•26 November 2008 to 29 November 2008 - Coordinated series of attacks, killing at least 172.

•13 July 2011 - Three coordinated bomb explosions at different locations, killing 26

•13 February 2010 - a bomb explosion at the German Bakery in Pune killed fourteen people, and injured at least 60 more

•1 August 2012 - four bomb explosion at various locations on JM Road, Pune injured 1 person

Tactics used by Terrorist

BombingSuicide attacksRocket and Mortar attacksNuclear attacks

Bombings

These may be implanted in automobiles to make a car bomb, planted on the roadside to detonate near target vehicles, or even strapped to the bodies of individuals for suicide attacks. From a tactical perspective, each of these methods have positives and drawback, for instance car bombs act as their own delivery mechanisms and can carry a relatively large amount of explosives with weights of up to and over 1000 pounds (450 kg), while a suicide vest has a much smaller payload but may allow the wearer access to spaces and individuals that vehicles cannot.

Suicide attacks

The number of attacks using suicide tactics has grown from an average of fewer than five per year during the 1980s to 180 per year between 2000 and 2005, and from 81 suicide attacks in 2001 to 460 in 2005.] These attacks have been aimed at diverse military and civilian targets, including in Sri Lanka, in Israel since July 6, 1989, in Iraq since the US-led invasion of that country in 2003, and in Pakistan and Afghanistan since 2005.Between 1980 and 2000 the largest number of suicide attacks was carried out by separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam of Sri Lanka. The number of attacks conducted by LTTE was almost double that of nine other major extremist organizations.[7]

Rocket and mortar attacks

The use of rocket and mortar attacks had been widely used from 1982–2012, in the example of the middle east rocket attacks against cities and settlements had been carried out by political entities such as Hezbollah and Hamas (not counted as state terrorism) and to non political organization such as Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, al-Qaeda and many others. the attacks very from lunching mortar (qassam) shells and rockets up to using a ballistic missiles by Hezbollah.

Nuclear attacks

Concerns have also been raised regarding attacks involving nuclear weapons. It is considered plausible that terrorists could acquire a nuclear weapon. Pakistan s acquisition of deadly nuclear weapon is a matter of serious security concern as they can provide these nuclear weapons to terrorists which can be used upon us which will cause a heavy loss of life and property .

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