India has lived with the spectre of terrorism for close to two decades: the rest of the world is only just discovering both its uncertainty and the certainty. The uncertainty revolves around not knowing when or where the next attack could come from. The certainty is knowing that even without a direct attack, the threat of terrorism will disrupt life as we know it.
After 9/11, there have been 10 terror attacks in our country in the past 6 years –not counting incidents in Jammu & Kashmir. The most recent of these was in Heydrabad and the lack of a significant breakthrough in that case is not encouraging. We need to understand whether levels of threat around us.
The modern terrorist has access to the latest technology and is not short of innovation-who knows what he will think up tomorrow?
The world itself is under attack. The war on terror can only be won with a global pooling together of information and expertise. Today more than ever, the words of English poet John Donne are prophetic: no man is an island.
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