NEW DELHI: India faces threats on a regular basis from “hostile neighbourhood” as well as from international terrorist organisations, which are used by some countries as “instruments” of their foreign policy, a top intelligence official said today.
“Our neighbour does it, they have been doing it for a long time. The threat that we face almost on a regular basis is from hostile neighbourhood. We have Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish e Mohammed, these two organisations have been set up, have been armed and sustained to target Indian interests that includes civil aviation assets as well,” Joint Intelligence Committee Chairman R N Ravi said but did not name Pakistan.
He further said the reason there was no agreed definition of terrorism internationally was because some of the countries were using “terror and terrorism as instruments” of their foreign policy.
Speaking at the function to mark the 29th anniversary of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) here, he noted that all major terror attacks that have happened in the country were acts by terrorist groups from hostile neighbourhood.
“If you look back, all the major attacks — against Parliament, Akshardam, Mumbai and the latest in Punjab in Pathankot — all these are the act of terrorist organisations coming from hostile neighbourhood. They will also look for civil aviation targets,” he said.(Agencies)
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