Manesar (Haryana), Oct 16: In the backdrop of the Supreme Court's stricture against handling of the Rajkumar hostage crisis by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Union Home Minister L K Advani today said he would request Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to convene a meeting of Chief Ministers soon to chalk out a "consensus" on handling cases related to kidnapping and blackmail in the country."I will discuss the matter with the Prime Minister once he returns from Mumbai and request him to convene a meeting of the Chief Ministers so that the country is well-equiped with a national policy to face the challenges of kidnapping and blackmail," he told reporters after attending the 16th Raising Day function of the National Security Guard (NSG) here.The proposed national policy need not be any piece of legislation, Advani said."Yeh (the policy) kanoon nahi hoga, lekin sabki gyat sehoga (It will not be a legislation but will be drawn up with consensus from all)," he said.Earlier, in his address to the NSG officials and jawans, Advani said the government's "pro-active" steps in fighting the "proxy war" during last year have yielded results.Making a veiled attack on Pakistan for its continued support to "cross-border terrorism", Advani said the phenomenon has assumed ominous dimension as a "global threat."Several countries today believe that cross-border terrorism is no longer an "offence against any particular country, it is a crime against humanity," he said. The Vajpayee Government's campaign to expose this globally has been quite successful.A worldwide opinion has been generated today and many countries are coming forward in setting up joint working groups with India to tackle the menace, he said."We have such groups with Israel, United States and UK, and will have similar panels soon with Germany and Russia," he said asserting "these will definitely show result."Maintaining that fighting an open battle like Kargil was far more easier than any proxy war where one had to identify and fight a hidden enemy, Advani said the NDA Government's performance in this regard (tackling proxy war) during last year has been pretty satisfactory.Applauding security forces for successfully fighting cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, he said by September this year, a record number of 222 militants have been killed.
