Source: DD News
Subject: Security
Context: India has unveiled its first-ever comprehensive anti-terror policy, titled ‘Prahaar’, formalising a proactive and intelligence-led counter-terror doctrine.
About Prahaar Anti Terror Policy:
What it is?
- Prahaar is India’s first integrated national counter-terrorism policy and strategy, designed as a doctrine-level framework for preventing, responding to and recovering from terrorism threats.
- It adopts a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach, combining intelligence, law enforcement, technology and international cooperation.
Launched by:
- Introduced by the Government of India as a national counter-terror strategy framework involving central and state security agencies.
Aim:
- To prevent and neutralize terrorism through proactive, intelligence-guided operations and coordinated institutional mechanisms.
- To disrupt terror ecosystems by targeting financing, recruitment, radicalisation, logistics and cyber networks.
Key Features:
- Seven-Pillar Framework (PRAHAAR): Prevention, Response, Aggregation of capacities, Human-rights-based processes, Attenuation of radicalisation, Aligning international cooperation, and Recovery.
- Proactive Intelligence Model: Focus on pre-emptive disruption of terror networks instead of reactive policing.
- Technology-Centric Security: Addresses threats from drones, encrypted messaging apps, dark web and crypto financing.
- Uniform Counter-Terror Structure: Standard procedures and coordinated mechanisms across central, state and district levels.
- Counter-Radicalisation Strategy: Graded police response combined with education, engagement and de-radicalisation programmes.
- Global Collaboration: Emphasis on extradition, intelligence sharing and alignment with UN anti-terror norms.
- Human Rights Safeguards: Ensures legal due process, redressal mechanisms and rule-of-law based action.
Significance:
- Marks a doctrinal shift from fragmented responses to a structured national counter-terror policy.
- Enhances India’s preparedness against emerging hybrid threats combining terrorism, cyber warfare and organised crime.
