Violence Predominates

The June-4 speech of US President Barack Obama in Cairo stating that the US was not at war with Islam has been widely acclaimed. Iranian President (Mahmood Ahmadiejad) was re-elected in a tense situation. History was made when the Israeli Prime Minister accepted the creation of a Palestinian state. For the first time, a woman Speaker took office in the Indian Parliament.

Terror situation in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan continued to remain bad with repeated attacks on mosques and hotels. It is for the first time that the Taliban launched an attack on the soil of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir. The Taliban had come to notice buying children at the rate between INR 500,000 to 2.5 million for converting them into suicide bombers. Reports of Muslim separatist insurgents recruiting at Islamic schools also came from Thailand. The Darul Uloom Haggania campus at Akara Khattak is being called the ‘university of jihad’. Religious tax, namely, ‘jiziya’ was imposed on Hindus in Khyber tribal region. The former chief of Bangladesh’s National Security Intelligence confirmed linkage between ISI and ULFA. The ULFA chief, Paresh Barua, is reportedly now in China. Danger of LTTE elements infiltrating into India as refugees has been indicated. The MI5 in UK started recruiting teachers for working as spies.

The left extremists intensified their activities in the states of Orissa, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, resulting in the Government of India banning them as terrorist organisation. The area called Lalgarh (West Bengal) has been described as a ‘secret state’ belonging to the left extremists. Women guerrillas were sighted in Dhanbad area of Jharkhand, leading an attack on a police party, killing 10 policemen. In a welcome development, the Government of India approved a proposal for net-working of all police stations in the country.

The private security industry in Pakistan has been reported to be doing flourishing business. Leaders of the Central Association of Private Security Industry (CAPSI), in India, had called on the President of India on June 12, 2009. IISSM has extended support to 2009 Global Oil and Gas Energy Security meet, scheduled at Four Seasons Hotel & Resort, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, on October 12-14, 2009. Following some guidelines given by the Union Home Secretary during IISSM-2007, the IISSM had gone up to the government with a detailed proposal where private security could play an effective role in national security. The Director Generals of Police in the States had also been addressed accordingly. Now the State Security Associations have been requested by the IISSM to follow that up in their respective areas.

There is a telling account in the General File why we should be “masters of our mouths”. And, you may like to have a wink of sleep to help solve problems!

Thanking you and with best regards,

D. C. Nath, IPS (Retd.)
Former Special Director, IB (MHA), Govt. of India,
Executive President & CEO,
International Institute of Security and Safety Management,
New Delhi, India.

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