Policy Group: Security

The intervening escalation was largely the result of the polarising politics pursued by the centre and its destabilising initiatives—particularly the revocation of the state’s special status under Article 370, the patterns of extreme restrictions, amounting to collective punishment thereafter, and the exclusion of all established state political parties and leaders from the political and administr. [...] Where conditions in the state were approaching the cusp of a possible political resolution, such an option has now been pushed into the realm of the improbable, despite the dominance that has now been restored by the security forces. [...] Nevertheless, most of the insurgent groups in the northeast are now in talks with the government, and many of the more prominent have given up armed struggle, with the significant exception of the independent faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-I) and the seven valley-based constituent groups of the Coordination Committee (CorCom) in Manipur. [...] The countries of the European Union collectively saw at least 5,778 fighters join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) (Ibid.), out of an estimated 25.8 million Muslims in the region.6 Similarly, despite continuous exhortations to jihad by al-Qaeda’s top leadership, including Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, since 1996, and the creation of a branch dedicated to the region— al-Qaeda in. [...] He has served as a Member of the Uttarakhand state police commission, the strategy formulation group of the Maharashtra police, the Madhukar Gupta Committee on the restructuring of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the police modernisation and strengthening committee, Uttar Pradesh.