Talking on the ‘World scourge of terrorism: evaluation of present threats and rising traits for the brand new decade’, V S Ok Kaumudi stated, ‘one other add-on’ to ‘present worries’ is the usage of drones.
India known as on the world to stay united in opposition to tendencies of labelling terrorism based mostly on terrorist motivations particularly these based mostly on faith, and political ideologies.
The potential of the usage of weaponised drones for terrorist actions in opposition to strategic and industrial belongings requires critical consideration by the worldwide group, India has instructed the UN Normal Meeting, a day after two explosives-laden drones crashed into the Indian Air Pressure (IAF) station at Jammu airport.
A recent try to assault a army set up with the assistance of drones was foiled by alert Military sentries on the Ratnuchak-Kaluchak station who fired on the unmanned aerial automobiles that flew away, an incident that got here hours after an IAF station noticed the primary terror assault utilizing quadcopters.
The primary drone was noticed at round 11.45 pm on Sunday adopted by one other at 2.40 am over the army station, which witnessed a terror assault in 2002 wherein 31 folks have been killed, together with 10 youngsters. The IAF assault is the primary occasion of suspected Pakistan-based terrorists deploying drones to strike on the nation’s important installations.
“In the present day, misuse of data and communication know-how reminiscent of web and social media for terrorist propaganda, radicalisation and recruitment of cadre; misuse of latest cost strategies and crowdfunding platforms for financing of terrorism; and misuse of rising applied sciences for terrorist functions have emerged as essentially the most critical threats of terrorism and can determine the counter-terrorism paradigm going ahead,” Particular Secretary (Inside Safety), Ministry of House Affairs within the Authorities of India, VSK Kaumudi stated.
Talking on the ‘World scourge of terrorism: evaluation of present threats and rising traits for the brand new decade’, he stated, ‘one other add-on’ to ‘present worries’ is the usage of drones.
“Being a low-cost possibility and simply obtainable, utilisation of those aerial/sub-surface platforms for sinister functions by terrorist teams reminiscent of intelligence assortment, weapon/explosives supply and focused assaults have change into an imminent hazard and problem for safety businesses worldwide,” he stated on the 2nd Excessive Stage Convention of the Head of Counter-Terrorism Companies of the Member States within the Normal Meeting.
“The potential of the usage of weaponised drones for terrorist functions in opposition to strategic and industrial belongings requires critical consideration by the member states. We now have witnessed terrorists utilizing UAS to smuggle weapons throughout borders,” Kaumudi stated, in accordance with his assertion issued by the Everlasting Mission of India to the UN.
Kaumudi stated the COVID-19 pandemic and the next isolation have additional accentuated the influence of the web on folks making them weak to radicalisation and recruitment by terrorist teams.
Spreading terrorist propaganda by the usage of “indulging video video games” is one other technique that was deployed by terrorist teams in the course of the pandemic, he stated.
“It’s crucial for nations to undertake a multi-pronged strategy to sort out the worldwide threats emanating out of misuse of latest applied sciences significantly aiming in the direction of terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism,” he stated.
India known as on the world to stay united in opposition to tendencies of labelling terrorism based mostly on terrorist motivations particularly these based mostly on faith, and political ideologies.
“This may definitely divide us and weaken our battle in opposition to terrorism,” Kaumudi stated.
He stated the trans border nature of this menace requires collective and unified motion by the worldwide group, with none excuse or exceptions, making certain that these nations which give secure havens to terrorists needs to be known as out and held accountable.
India famous with concern that web and social media platforms have become indispensable assets within the toolkit of world terrorist teams for spreading terrorist propaganda and conspiracy theories aimed toward spreading hatred amongst societies and communities and supply further radicalisation alternatives which can proliferate globally.
“The elevated use of closed group communications provides to the priority,” he stated.
Kaumudi instructed the Normal Meeting that persevering with developments in evolving applied sciences, reminiscent of Synthetic Intelligence, robotics, “deep fakes”, blockchain, darkish net are fraught with the chance of being abused by terrorists. “Already, cryptocurrencies, digital belongings, crowdfunding platforms are serving to terror financing, owing to anonymity and un-traceability of those applied sciences,” he stated.
India has put in place an elaborate counter-terrorism and safety structure, apart from introducing a sequence of measures within the cyber-space encapsulating counter-radicalisation and de-radicalisation methods.