FICCI team moots ways to fight terror

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry FICCI,in a report on national security and terrorism,has underlined the imperative need to evolve a national counter-terrorism architecture which establishes a National Counter-Terrorism Agency,a National Intelligence Grid,a Ministry of Internal Security with a Cabinet minister and a new intelligence agency dedicated to non-state actors.

The report of the FICCI Task Force,headed by Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar,was presented to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday. It has made wide-ranging recommendations to counter the threat to Indias security from cross-border jihadi terrorism and Naxalite insurgency.

On cross-border terrorism,the Task Force has said that Pakistan has to make a clean break from its existing state policy of supporting terrorism. Meanwhile,India needs to build up its capabilities to counter Pakistani state designs,if it doesnt disown terrorism and come clean.