India's position on Terrorism

Hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight IC-814

India's contribution in combating Terrorism

On Global Terrorism

 

 





"Our message is loud and clear: The life of every Indian citizen under our dispensation is precious. In our fight against terrorism, we will be guided by the principle of 'Zero Tolerance'." - Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, October 16, 1999

   

Statement by Mr. V. K. Nambiar, Permanent Representative, on Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts at the Security Council - March 04, 2004

Statement by Mr. K. Kalavenkata Rao, Member of Parliament and member of the Indian delegation - Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism at the Sixth Committee of the 58th session of the UN General Assembly - October 15, 2003

Joint Statement of the India-US Joint Working Group on Counterterrorism - July 12, 2002

Recent terrorist attacks in Jammu & Kashmir

Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament

The Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance, 2001

Working document submitted to UN by India on the draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism

Information & Press Releases on terrorist attacks on World Trade Center & Pentagon

Prime Minister Vajpayee's address to the nation on terrorist attacks on America - September 14, 2001

Prime Minister's letter to U. S. President Bush on terrorist attacks on America - September 11, 2001

India condemns terrorist attacks on World Trade Center, New York & Pentagon, Washington, DC - September 11, 2001
Joint U.S.-India Statement on Counter-terrorism Working Group - June 26, 2001

External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh's statement in Parliament on Taliban's cultural vandalism - March 02, 2001

Resolution adopted by both Houses of Indian Parliament on Taliban's decree to destroy all religious statues in Afghanistan - March 02, 2001

India - U.S. Statement on Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism - September 26, 2000

Statement by the Home Minister L. K. Advani on situation in Jammu & Kashmir in Parliament - August 9, 2000

The Education of a Holy Warrior - New York Times, 
June 25, 2000
In a Pakistani religious school called the Haqqania madrasa, Osama bin Laden is a hero, the Taliban's leaders are famous alums and the next generation of mujahedeen is being militantly groomed. (Complete text)

Countering the changing threat of International Terrorism -  US National Commission on Terrorism Report - June 5, 2000

Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1999 (South Asia Region) - U.S. State Department Report - May 1, 2000

Joint U.S.- India Statement on Counter-terrorism Working Group - February 8, 2000
India and the United States have a shared interest in strengthening a regime to counter international terrorism. This working group is intended to enhance the effectiveness of our efforts to counter international terrorism worldwide. (Complete text)

India identifies all five hijackers of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 - January 6, 2000
L.K. Advani, Union Home Minister, while addressing a press conference has said that the Mumbai Police have arrested four Pakistani intelligence operatives based in Mumbai, who assisted the five hijackers of the Indian Airlines plane.  He further added that during interrogation of these four operatives, they have confirmed that the Indian Airlines hijack was a Pakistani intelligence operation executed with the assistance of Harkat-ul-Ansar. All five hijackers are Pakistani nationals. (Complete text)

Measures to eliminate international terrorism - Statement by Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, Permanent Representative to the United Nations on November 16, 1999  

Press Release on Pakistan's support of cross border terrorism - November 10, 1999
India once again called upon the Pakistan to abandon their irresponsible support of cross-border terrorism. (Text)

UN Security Council Resolution 1269
The Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on October 19, 1999 unequivocally condemning all acts, methods, and practices of terrorism and calling on states to strengthen international cooperation in fighting terrorism and bringing terrorists to justice. (Complete text)

Working Group on International Terrorism: Adoption of Convention on Financing of Terrorism - Statement by India to the United Nations in New York on October 6, 1999

Working Group on International Terrorism - Statement by  India to the United Nations in New York on September 27, 1999

Statement by Jaswant Singh, External Affairs Minister in the UN General Assembly - September 22, 1999
"Terrorism is a menace to which open societies are vulnerable; it becomes particularly difficult for democracies to counter when terrorists are armed, financed and backed by governments or their agencies, and benefit from the protection of state power. Cross-border terrorism, sponsored from across our borders, has taken the lives of thousands of our citizens, and ruined, those of countless others. We will counter it, as we have done over the past decades, using the methods available to a democracy. India will defeat such forces. That is both our duty and our obligation to our citizens." (Complete text)

India signs the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, 1997 - September 17, 1999
The Convention which was adopted by resolution 52/164 of the General Assembly on December 15, 1997 requires States to either prosecute or extradite those accused of terrorist bombings within their territory (Complete text)

External Affairs Minister writes to Russian Foreign Minister on terrorist activities in Dagestan - September 13, 1999 

External Affairs Minister writes to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyz Republic, Mr. Muratbek Imanaliev on recent terrorist activities in that region - September 01, 1999

Prime Minister Vajpayee writes a letter to the President of Afghanistan - August 25, 1999
Prime Minister condemned the brutal massacre of innocent people, torching of houses, use of incendiary bombs, destruction of crops and deliberate displacement of women and children perpetrated by the Taliban forces backed by Pakistan on the people and to all Afghans. (Text of letter)

The Union Cabinet approves signing and ratification of the international convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings - August 5, 1999

We must join hands to fight terrorism - Speech by Mrs. Vasundhara Raje, Minister of State for External Affairs, at the international conference "Terrorism: Threat to the 21st Century", January 11, 1999

Measures to eliminate international terrorism - Statement by Mr. Rup Chand Pal, Member of Parliament at the United Nations Sixth Committee, November 12, 1998

Profile of terrorist violence in Jammu & Kashmir