- By Aditya Jha
- Sat, 01 Nov 2025 11:51 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval on Friday emphasised that India has successfully dealt with the issue of terrorism in the past decade, further claiming that the last major incident happened in 2013. Doval further stated that most of the state has not witnessed any such attack; however, he admitted that work has to be done in Jammu and Kashmir. Doval stated that efforts are being made to eliminate the terrorists, adding that most of the districts have been declared safe in the past few years. Doval further asserted that Indians now feel secure from both internal and external forces.
"The facts are facts, and they cannot be disputed. Terrorism in this country has been effectively countered. We had a major incident of terrorism on July 1, 2005, and the last one in 2013 in the hinterland. Except for Jammu and Kashmir, which had been a theatre of a proxy war or a covert warfare for Pakistan, which is a different ballgame, the whole country has remained secure from terrorist attacks. Efforts were made. People were arrested. Explosives are recovered," Doval was quoted as saying by ANI.
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Apart from this, he informed that the "left-wing extremism" has been reduced to less than 11 per cent areas, adding that those districts have been declared safe. "Enemies have remained very active, but fortunately—and it's more of a good fortune in the country that we can say that we have had no terrorist incident in the hinterland," Doval stated.
"The left-wing extremism has reduced to less than 11 per cent areas than what existed in 2014. Most of the districts which had been declared as left-wing prone have been declared safe," he added. Doval also emphasised that the recent political instability in the neighbouring nations is because of the poor governance.
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