Hyderabad,mar 01:
Terming terrorism as a major challenge for the entire world, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that India was getting full cooperation from the Islamic countries in its fight against terrorism.
“All countries are coming on one platform to fight terror. They are all of the views that there should be a decisive war against terror,” the Minister said while inaugurating the office and residential complex of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) here.
NIA`s Hyderabad office will cover the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
The Minister also inaugurated the agency`s Guwahati office via video conferencing. This office will cover all the northeastern states.He said terrorism was a major challenge not just for India but for the entire global community.He noted that the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for the first time invited India`s Foreign Minister as the guest of honour for its conference.
The Home Minister said terrorism had nothing to do with caste, creed or religion. “Some people link terrorism with religion which is not proper,” he said.Every Indian irrespective of caste, community and religion felt the pain following the February 14 Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF troopers.He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a tough stand to eliminate terrorism from Indian soil.The Minister also referred to the return of Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman, who was captured by Pakistan on Wednesday.
While thanking the organisers for according `Abhinandan` (welcome) to him and other dignitaries, he said: “The truth is that our and your `Abhinandan` and the entire country`s `Abhinandan` will enter India in few hours.”Stating that there was a strategic change in the country`s response to terrorism during the last few years, he said the credit for this should go to the NIA.He pointed out that the NIA has achieved a conviction rate of 92 per cent. “Perhaps no other agency in the world has such a high conviction rate.”
