Internal Security
Militancy in Jammu and Kashmir
History of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Pre-Independence Aurangzeb’s successors were weak rulers. Later Mughals failed to retain Kashmir. After Mughal rule, it passed to Afghan, Sikh, and Dogra rule. In 1752, Kashmir was seized by the Afghan ruler Ahmed Shah Abdali. The Afghan Durrani Empire ruled Kasmir...
Internal Security
Anti-Terror Laws in India
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 This law was enacted to provide for more effective prevention of certain unlawful activities of individuals and associations, and for matters connected with it. It empowered appropriate authorities to declare any association as ‘unlawful’ if it is...
Internal Security
Terror Funding
Terror Funding or Terrorism Finance (TF) is the lifeblood of terrorism. Financing is required not just to fund specific terrorist operations, but to meet the broader organisational costs of developing and maintaining a terrorist organisation and to create an...
Internal Security
Terrorism in India
Terrorism as an offence does not figure in the Indian Penal Code of 1860 as amended from time to time. In India, the first special law which attempted to define terrorism was the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, of 1987,...
Internal Security
Terrorism
International terrorism today is marked by the large number of transnational terrorist groups, mostly motivated by the Islamist fundamentalist ideology with Al-Qaeda, ISIS at the forefront. Definition of Terrorism Firstly, a ‘terrorist’ in one country may be viewed as a ‘freedom...
Internal Security
Internal Security of India
In modern times, the form and number of threats to a country’s security internal as well as external – has become more challenging than ever. It has become very important for a country to maintain its sovereignty in international statecraft as well...
