Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday stated that cross-border propagation of terrorist ideologies through online radicalisation cannot be considered as "political problem." Addressing the concluding session of the 90th Interpol General Assembly, he said terrorism is the biggest violator of human rights, news agency PTI reported.
Shah stated there must be agreement on the cross-border spread of terrorist ideologies via online radicalization.
"We cannot consider this to be a political problem. We must all be committed to ensuring that an effective fight against terrorism should be long-term, comprehensive and sustainable," he said, PTI reported.
The Home Minister stated that all countries must come together to have a common definition of terrorism and terrorists.
"We cannot fight terrorists and terrorism globally unless there is a common definition of both. Commitment to fight terrorism and differentiating good or bad terrorism or classifying terror attacks as big or small cannot go together," he said, PTI reported.
According to him, Interpol is the best platform for achieving "cross-border cooperation," which is required to combat "cross-border terrorism." He further said in many countries Interpol nodal agency and counter terrorism agencies are different.
"Given this situation, in order to fight terrorism, we will have to bring together all the counter-terrorism agencies of the world," he said.
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Shah asked Interpol to set up a permanent communication channel between countries' counter-terrorism agencies so that real-time information and intelligence could be shared.
"There should be exchange of information, joint campaigns, regional maritime cooperation, mutual legal assistance, effective mechanism to tackle money laundering to combat narco-terrorism and narco-smuggling," he said underlining successes achieved by Narcotics Control Bureau recently, PTI reported.
He stated that India is committed to collaborating with Interpol to combat all forms of global terrorism by providing technical and human resources.
According to Shah, current crime incidents are "borderless," and all Interpol member countries must rise to meet the challenge, with the global police organization's role in addressing these issues being "very important." He stated that the Modi administration is doing everything possible to prepare police forces to face a variety of challenges.
He also said citizens' security is the first priority of any police force.
"The way criminal syndicates are using modern technology to work internationally, I do not see why countries across the globe should not cooperate or coordinate. It's a dual challenge before our police and law enforcement agencies, on one side they have to implement law within sovereign boundaries of a country and on the other hand they have to handle the global nature of criminals operating across borders," he said, PTI reported.
(With Inputs From PTI)