Sponsorship and external linkages have 'tended to fertilize indigenous terrorism.'
Days after National Security Advisor M K Narayanan briefed Leader of Opposition L K Advani of the threat perception to Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Advani and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the party will send both the leaders to campaign for twenty-five party candidates in Nagaland.
Sonia Gandhi and her children Rahul and Priyanka are protected by the elite Special Protection Group.
This has been done, taking note of threat of 'fidayeen' attacks on key installations.
He was responding to a question whether there was any confusion in the government in the backdrop of National Security Advisor M K Narayanan's statement that Pakistan had reverted to India with a number of questions on the Indian dossier on the Mumbai terror attack. Narayanan's statement had contradicted the stand taken by Mukherjee.
India is ready to share more information with Pakistan if Islamabad wants any more dossiers to further its investigation into the 26/11 Mumbai attack, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said. He reiterated that Pakistan has not given any report to India on its probe into the terror strikes and that a lot of reports have appeared in the media in this regard. Mukherjee's statement contradicts that of National Security advisor M K Narayanan.
Former national security advisor M K Narayanan was on Sunday sworn in as the West Bengal Governor by Calcutta High Court Chief Justice M S Shah at the 'Throne Room' of the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday had a series of meetings with National Security Advisor M K Narayanan who briefed the new home minister about the situation in the country after Pakistan-based terrorists attacked Mumbai last week killing 195 people.
The report opined that this could be decided only by the Unified Command, an apex body comprising the Army, police, para-military forces and intelligence officials to tackle insurgency.
General secretary of Samajwadi Party Amar Singh described National Security Advisor M K Narayanan as nothing more than a dakiya (postman) as he was merely passing on information from the Centre to states.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj strongly defended National Security Advisor M K Narayanan in the National Integration Council meeting on Monday when Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh took exception to the NSA's reply to his demand for a judicial probe into the Batla House encounter, in which two alleged terrorists and a Delhi police officer were killed.
Speaking about the character of the jihadi activity from Pakistan, Narayanan said it tends to go up and down but added that "we don't mind the flip-flop".
The sixth round of India-China special representative-level border negotiations began in Beijing on Monday as part of efforts of the two Asian giants to reach a package to solve the vexed boundary issue.
'Terrorism creates suspicion among neighbours, suspicion among communities, which could be a major blow to India's otherwise widely hailed and widely recognized society'
They met to finalise the agenda of the Indo-Russian summit on January 25 in New Delhi.
According to the latest Status Paper on Internal Security brought out by the MHA, these outfits are 'well organised, interlinked, and have the latest hardware and communication equipment'. The 'current strategy' of terrorist groups is to recruit and train local modules and activate them when required, maintain flow of finances to sustain terror network and supply hardware through land and sea routes.
A day after National Security Advisor M K Narayanan said India has pretty good evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the Mumbai blasts, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said, "It is a propagandist statement as they have no evidence."
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, who is also its special representative, will hold the fifth round of boundary talks with his Indian counterpart National Security Advisor M K Narayanan.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's first ever official visit to China, between January 13 and January 15, will be a low-key affair. He will not be visiting any city other than Beijing. He will be accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur, Commerce minister Kamal Nath and National Security Advisor M K Narayanan.
"If anyone kept their word, it was me, not Rajiv. He went back to India and then called me on his way to the Commonwealth to say that he could not keep his promise to withdraw from Siachen, and that he would do it only after the elections (1989)," Bhutto said.
The condition is that the government must include the issue of sovereignty in the talks.
National Security Advisor M K Narayanan has suggested a ban on Bajrang Dal may not be sustainable and refused to term the Sangh Parivar outfit and SIMI as two sides of the same coin, leaving Railway Minister Lalu Prasad peeved and prompting the BJP to speak of another disconnect between the NSA and the government.
M K Narayanan, national security advisor, accused the media of trying to sabotage the 123 Agreement even before it has been implemented by India and United States.
He will largely play a behind-the-scenes role and will sit in on the high-level meetings between the US and Indian teams so as to ensure that India's strategic and nuclear establishment's interests are not compromised
The two sides are looking to move forward in mutual understanding.
"We do not want the Sri Lankan government to go to Pakistan or China. Whatever may be their requirement, the Sri Lankan government should come to us."
In what may be seen as worst fears of National Security Advisor M K Narayanan coming true, a US report on terrorism has said pro-Pakistan Jaish-e-Mohammed was investing in commodity market and real estate to raise funds for its terrorist activities.
Besides Dr Singh, the meeting was attended by Defence Minister A K Antony, Army Chief J J Singh, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan and others.
The IAF and USAF would begin a 12-day exercise at Kalaikunda base from November 7 and West Bengal's ruling CPI (M) has threatened to mobilise 30 lakh activists in statewide protests against the event.
Release of top ULFA leaders figures in Centre-PCG talks
The prime minister has been briefed about the talks held earlier last year during the NDA regime.
"The Chinese premier underlined that whatever anybody might say, India and China are friendly neighbours and have a common view of how the world should be looked at," Naraynan said.
Bangladesh has emerged as a launch pad into India for Pakistan-based terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Dhaka is not cooperating with New Delhi in cracking down on them, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan said on Thursday.
With the ceasefire with United Liberation Front of Asom in Assam expiring at midnight on Wednesday, a high level meeting in New Delhi on Thursday reviewed the peace process with the banned group.
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