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The major terrorist
attacks in India
Surat
Ahmedabad
Banglore
Jaipur
Rampur
Ajmer Sarif
Hyderabad
Hyderabad Masjid
Delhi Atari Link Exp.
Malegav (Maha.)
Mumbai trains
Varanasi
New Delhi
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Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh addressing the 15th South Asian Association
for Regional Corporation (SAARC) on Agust 2, 2008 said that
terrorism remained the 'largest single' threat to South Asia's
stability. In five days, 55 bombs were planted (of which, , 25 did
not explode) in the three cities of Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Surat,
leaving at least 53 dead.
A report last year by the National Counterterrorism
Center in Washington, DC concluded that from January 2004 to March
2007, the death toll from terrorist attacks in India was 3,674,
second only to that in Iraq during the same period. Since 2005
Diwali bombings in Delhi that began the bombing campaign, nearly 550
people have been killed in 11 well - coordinated terrorist attacks. But not one has been solved and
not one terrorist arrested. India the world's second- fastest
growing economy and its 2.2 million police force cannot deal with
globalised terror.
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Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh addressing the 15th (SAARC) on Agust 2, 2008
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India
brazened such terrorist attacks in the past 60 years lost Mahatma to terrorist bullets,
Prime Minister Indira Ghandi unleashed by terrorists; and a former Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by a suicide bomber. Innumerable lives are lost in attacks mounted by various outfits
in the North-east, apart from those lost to Maoist insurgencies in various parts
of the country.
The terrorists attacked Parliament, the Red Fort, the Akshardham
temple and the Raghunath temple twice. Clearly, it is not the inadequacy of law
that is encouraging terrorism.
There have been 10 major terrorist attacks in two years, from
Bearas to Bangalore. |
The terrorists also attacked Parliament. |
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India's diamond and textile hub of Surat in the western state of
Gujarat has shut down after police defused 19 small bombs over the past two days. Markets, malls, cinemas and schools are closed in the city and
police have appealed to people to stay indoors.
A series of 17 blasts in Gujarat's commercial capital, Ahmedabad, on
August 02, 2008 killed 49 people. Surat is a mini-India. Of the city's population of 4m, 3.5m are
migrants from the rest of India. So if there is panic in Surat, there will be panic in the rest of India too. Three quarters of the world's diamonds are cut and polished in Surat and the industry - with exports worth $18bn a year - is the biggest foreign exchange earner in the country.
Militant groups have been fighting an insurgency against Indian rule in Kashmir
since 1989. The conflict has cost over 60,000 lives. Nearly 6,000 people have been killed in violence linked to Maoist rebels in
several southern and eastern states over the past 20 years. The rebels are pressing for the creation of a communist state comprising tribal
areas in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Bihar and
Chhattisgarh.
The modern age terrorist is a technocrat too. He can mix a cocktail of chemicals
to make bombs, trigger of explosions whenever and wherever he wants to, hack
e-mail accounts to send messages in other people's names and remain anonymous
while he does all that.
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