*NEW DELHI – India has become the third worst state in the World over theissue of terrorist attacks on its soil. *

*India was at the third position as one of the victims of extreme terrorattacks in the World.*

According to a US survey, India after Iraq and Afghanistan becomes thethird largest victim of terror attacks across the world due to the hands ofMaoists, which carried out 53% of the total attacks in India.

Maoist is a Communist Party of India which aims to overthrow the governmentthrough people’s war.

The national consortium for the study of terrorism and responses toterrorism, contracted by the US Department of state, has claimed that Jammuand Occupied Kashmir witnessed a 24% increase in terror attacks in 2017 andan 89% increase in the number of people killed in those attacks.

Out of a total 860 terror attacks across India in 2017, 25% were reportedfrom J&K alone.

Terming Maoists as the fourth deadliest terror group in the world, the USstudy has stated that it was responsible for 53% of attacks in India in2017.

“The frequency of terrorist violence by Maoist extremists in India declinedbetween 2016 and 2017 with respect to the number of attacks (from 338 in2016 to 295 in 2017); however, the number of people killed increased 16%,and the number of people injured increased 50%,” it said.