Indian intelligence agencies tasked to launch new campaign against Pakistan
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NEW DELHI - Indian intelligence agencies have been tasked by the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval to launch new campaign against Pakistan, media had reported.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval highlighted the role media played today in the fight against terrorism. He asked security and intelligence agencies to take the media into confidence when it comes to terror investigation and warnings, since the media is a "very important organ to fight terrorism". He was talking in reference to terrorism from Pakistan against India.
"It is all about perception. Since most of us do not tell them (the media) anything, they speculate and carry news. That news, in turn, terrorises society rather than prepare society to fight terror," he told room full of senior police officers who are directly and indirectly dealing with anti-terror operations on a daily basis.
Quoting Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of Britain, he said, "Terrorism will end if the media is quiet".
"Why do terrorists kill? They kill for publicity. If 10 people are killed and no one comes to know about it, no one would be terrorised," Mr Doval said while addressing a conference of the chiefs of the Anti-Terrorism Squads.
In this context, security and intelligence agencies also need to change their media policy, he said.
