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ISIS’s Infiltration into Balkans and its Changing Tactics

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a powerful group which is responsible for hundreds of terrorist attacks around the world and used to control large areas of Iraq and Syria in the size of the United Kingdom. ISIS is known around the world....

January 31, 2019 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , ISIS terror , ISIS in Balkans

Strasbourg Terror Attack – Revisiting ISIS Footprints in Europe

Dr Ramanand Garge Article

The picturesque city of Strasbourg witnessed a shocking terror attack on December 11, 2018, in which a gunman opened fire around the famous Christmas market, killing at least three people and wounding 12 others. The Strasbourg Christmas markets is on....

January 29, 2019 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Strasbourg terror attack , terror threat in Europe

An Inconvenient Reality: 26/11 as State-Sponsored Terrorism

Dr Prem Mahadevan

... the 26/11 attack occurred because India invested heavily in two components of counter-terrorism: international diplomacy and domestic intelligence, but neglected a third: covert retaliatory capability ... as long as Pakistan exists, there will al....

January 11, 2019 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , 26/11 attack , Mumbai , State-Sponsored Terrorism , Deep Terror

Decoding Threat to India from Terrorism and Insurgency

Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.) Article

Introduction

Extremists and terrorists have redoubled their efforts to pursue their ill-founded objectives of creating violence and instability across the globe. Of the last 16 years, the worst year for terrorism was 2014, with 93 countri....

December 20, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Internal threats , counter-terrorism strategy

Amritsar Grenade Attack – Stoking ‘Khalistan’ Disturbance?

Dr Ramanand Garge Article

The holy city of Amritsar was shaken by a grenade attack by two masked men who brandished pistols and forced their way into a weekly congregation of the Nirankari Sect and lobbed grenades into the prayer hall of the Nirankari Bhavan of Adliwal villag....

December 11, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Article , Amritsar grenade attack , Khalistani terrorist groups

Is Pakistan Losing its Asymmetric Warfare through Nuclearised-Terrorism to India’s Security Posture?

Commodore Somen Banerjee Commentary

Successful completion of INS Arihant’s war patrol signaled the operationalisation of India’s nuclear triad. This event has been deliberated extensively by the academics, professionals and media the world over. Whilst some have appreciated this ev....

December 04, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , Pakistan’s nuclear-terrorism , India’s triad

Talk by Shri DC Pathak, former Director, Intelligence Bureau on ‘Handling Radicalisation – a Prime Threat’

Shri DC Pathak, Former Chairman, JIC and former Director, Intelligence Bureau, delivered a talk at the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) on the theme, ‘Handling Radicalisation – a Prime Threat’. In his opening remarks, Shri Pathak,....

October 22, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Interaction , Radicalisation , DC Pathak , Threat , Lashkar-e- Taiyyaba , Jaish-e-Mohammad , Harqat-ul-Mujahedeen

Cryptocurrencies: A New Scourge of Terror Financing

...global counter-terrorism community has serious concerns over the use of cryptocurrencies by terrorist groups for terror financing … this essay examines some of the recent cases of the use of virtual currencies for terror financing, and the use o....

August 27, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Islamic State , Cryptocurrencies , Terror Financing

Terror Financing: Battle beyond the Banks

… FATF pronouncements are sensitive to the requirements of better information sharing between the law enforcement agencies, banking sector, governments, and the private sector … it is also engaging police officers, judges and prosecutors to impro....

May 01, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Pakistan , FATF , Terror Financing

Commentary: Implications of Pakistan on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Grey List

Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty Commentary

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) The ‘Group of Seven’ countries, commonly referred as G-7, was conceptualised prior to the 1973 oil crisis. It started with an informal meeting between the US Secretary of the Treasury and....

April 23, 2018 Terrorism , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , FATF Grey List , Pakistan’s terror-finance , FATF