National Counter-Terrorism Policy and Strategy: PRAHAAR
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) unveiled India’s first-ever comprehensive National Counter-Terrorism Policy and Strategy, titled ‘PRAHAAR’. This marks a paradigm shift from a reactive security stance to a proactive, intelligence-driven doctrine.
PRAHAAR: The strategy is an acronym representing the core pillars of India’s proactive defense mechanism:
- Prevention of terror attacks to protect Indian citizens and interests;
- Responses, which are swift and proportionate to the threat posed;
- Aggregating internal capacities for achieving synergy in a whole-of-government approach;
- Human rights and ‘Rule of Law’ based processes for mitigation of threats;
- Attenuating the conditions enabling terrorism, including radicalization;
- Aligning and shaping the international efforts to counter terrorism;
- Recovery and resilience through a whole-of-society approach.
