WASHINGTON – US Report reveals weaknesses in Indian Intelligence andCounter Terrorism Operations, media report had revealed.
The US has said that weak intelligence sharing by agencies and the limitedresources of the National Security Guard (NSG) were affecting India’scounter-terrorism efforts.
“Despite its rigorous training, NSG’s rapid response capability is somewhatlimited, due in part to its small staff relative to India’s large size andto the NSG’s limited independent logistics capacity,” according to theState Department’s annual survey of global terrorism.
“Continued weaknesses in intelligence and information sharing negativelyimpacted state and central law enforcement agencies,” the report said aboutthe other perceived shortcoming.
But the report, “Country Reports on Terrorism for 2018”, also noted thatthe “larger Indian states have established their own state-level MACs(Multi-Agency Centres) and are providing near-real-time information onterrorism to India’s various law enforcement agencies”.
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The top international counter-terrorism official of the US, Nathan Sales,who released the report in Washington last week, said that in 2018, mostterrorist incidents around the world (about 85 per cent) were concentratedin three regions — South Asia, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa.
Washington and New Delhi have increased cooperation to fight terrorism andin March last year, the US-India Counterterrorism Joint Working Groupreviewed threats posed by terrorist groups worldwide, the report said, IANShas reported.
