The Big Picture - Breaking Terror Networks

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that state sponsorship of terrorism is the biggest threat humanity is facing as he urged the world leaders to unite for combating the menace. Addressing the Maldivian Parliament, the Majlis, the Prime Minister added Terrorism is not just a threat for a country but to the entire civilization. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Prime Minister Modi met Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena for the second time in 10 days and agreed that terrorism was a "joint threat" that needed collective and focused action. Modi was the first foreign leader to visit Sri Lanka after the dastardly terror attack of April 21 that killed over 250 people and was claimed by the Islamic State. His visit is being seen as India's affirmation of solidarity with the neighbouring country in its hour of crisis. Prime Minister Modi has time and again reminded the world about the perils of terrorism and has urged the international community to deal with the menace with an iron fist. On this edition of the big picture we will analyse how the world can break terror networks

Guest - MAJ. GEN. Dhruv C. Katoch (Retd.) Director India Foundation,
Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, Former Ambassador,
Prof. Harsh V Pant, Distinguished Fellow and Head of ORF’s Strategic Studies,

Anchor - Frank Rausan Pereira

[bharaniv]

Mr. Frank has this exceptional ability to steer the discussion and summarize it in such a lucid manner. What a talent! :)

[dljqync]

1.Multipronged approach
2.Intelligence sharing efforts
3.choking finances

[jatinsukhija]

The Big Picture 10 6 19 - Breaking Terror Networks

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that state sponsorship of terrorism is the biggest threat humanity is facing as he urged the world leaders to unite for combating the menace. Addressing the Maldivian Parliament, the Majlis, the Prime Minister added Terrorism is not just a threat for a country but to the entire civilization. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Prime Minister Modi met Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena for the second time in 10 days and agreed that terrorism was a "joint threat" that needed collective and focused action. Modi was the first foreign leader to visit Sri Lanka after the dastardly terror attack of April 21 that killed over 250 people and was claimed by the Islamic State. His visit is being seen as India's affirmation of solidarity with the neighbouring country in its hour of crisis. Prime Minister Modi has time and again reminded the world about the perils of terrorism and has urged the international community to deal with the menace with an iron fist. On this edition of the big picture we will analyse how the world can break terror networksPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that state sponsorship of terrorism is the biggest threat humanity is facing as he urged the world leaders to unite for combating the menace. Addressing the Maldivian Parliament, the Majlis, the Prime Minister added Terrorism is not just a threat for a country but to the entire civilization. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Prime Minister Modi met Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena for the second time in 10 days and agreed that terrorism was a "joint threat" that needed collective and focused action. Modi was the first foreign leader to visit Sri Lanka after the dastardly terror attack of April 21 that killed over 250 people and was claimed by the Islamic State. His visit is being seen as India's affirmation of solidarity with the neighbouring country in its hour of crisis. Prime Minister Modi has time and again reminded the world about the perils of terrorism and has urged the international community to deal with the menace with an iron fist. On this edition of the big picture we will analyse how the world can break terror networks

• PM called for global conference to deal with international terrorism.
• Intelligence sharing among countries needs to be increased.
• UN is not being effective in curtailing terrorism.
• State sponser terrorism have to be tackled at two level – dealing with terrorist organization and the country supporting such activities.
• Serious steps would not be taken by America and Europe until they are affected.
• Financial action task force is being proven effective in curtailing terrorism.
• Lack of consensus on what is terrorism? Among countries.
• Unilateral approach to deal with terrorism is only recently been used by India since surgical strike, world had shown support for such approach.
• Choking financial support of terror group is needed- difficult but necessary
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[saurabhsingh]

When mic is right then why drop to the ambessdor

[donbuddha]

Excellent discussion
Professor Pant was at his best today

[shyammohansharma]

Thank you for bringing such a show to us. Expert views makes the show even more important.

[harshsingh.]

This may be one of the best discussions with a sound and informative panel.Thanks RSTV

[vishalkumar-txgc]

One of the best show, which i always enjoy

[shashiketan]

Terrorism:
- Terrorism not a threat to country but entire civilization.
- When we thought LTTE was crushed, we just met with another attack by IS in Srilanka
- Voluminous reports on IS operating in safe haven through modules including western Europe

India & terrorism:
- We haven't been able to address terrorism in Kashmir - unable to isolate Kashmir from Pakistan.
- Insurgency in North east - 60's
- Left Wing extremism
- Sikh militancy

India's approach
- Unilateral: Changed from defensive to offensive - Balakot or surgical strike.
- Bilateral: PM's visit to Maldives, Srilanka
First foreign leader to visit Srilanka after the dastardly terror attack claimed by the Islamic State
- Multilateral forums: Very vocal in all forums
Trying extremely hard to put Pakistan in FATF's blacklist
Put diplomatic pressure on china which was the only roadblock in declaring Masood Azhar as terrorist.

Challenges:
- Countries looking terrorism through prism of national interest: Least convergence among countries on definition of Terrorism.
If there economic & political interest met - countries not really bothered
- Proxy war: Pak & Taliban have Nexus in Afghanistan, When Russia was involved US & Pak were united. Similar story in Syria & Iraq
- IS lost territory but ideology has spread far & wide: Al Qaeda functions without territory.
- State sponsored terrorism: Pakistan.
govt uses terrorist groups as instrument of state policy. It's even worse because Pakistan is nuclear powered country.
- Individual groups can be tackled but when state is behind the curtains there is a element of deniability.
LeT attacks in India or Hamas attacks - Pakistan & Iran can deny.
- Selective approach in terrorism - Bad & Good terrorism
- Taliban which we were fighting are on the negotiating table

Steps Need to be taken:
- Essential to control their finances: within J&K - control on illegal funding
one of the major finance - kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Intelligence sharing & cooperation
- we should be cognizant of what may happen next
: futuristic
- Like minded countries must come together.

Terrorism is here to stay and can affect anyone. We must apply multi-pronged approach & have engagement with international community to defeat terrorism.

[jayanti]

great discussion, no one host show better than

[shivangiseth]

Thank u frank sir🙌 u r looking so energetic as always.

[kidduvideos]

Dealing with Pakistan is okay but what about our own guys being radicalized in the name of religion. Need to deal at this front too.

[arunpk]

Could you please create a separate playlist for big picture????

[goodmorninghimalayas]

Frank is my fav. Hero and big picture is my fav.movie series

[edok]

Humans are good by nature, so skip them, attack the mindset. Mic drop

[ChandraShekar-bywu]

where are the legends who post summary in comment section

[jamesmicheal]

Learn how Russia dealt with abduction and murder of Russian diplomats during Lebanese civil war
This can give us good lesson of how to deal with terrorists

[anfantasy]

Half the countries in world responsible for proxy wars as witnessed in continents of Africa and Asia. Have to be as independent as cooperative

[rashmikumarrastogi]

Dear RSTV team,
There are numerous scholars in India other than Prof. Pant and Mr. Katoch.
Simply bored of listening to their views on these similar topics.
Please invite other distinguished scholars as guests. It's an earnest request.

[aryanroy]

There ambassador tried to bell the cat 🐈 !! Saudi Always left behind source of wahabism.