New Delhi (NVI): Asserting that the war on terror is not going to end, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat today advocated a hardline approach to tackle the menace and cited the approach adopted by the US after 9/11.
He also said that those sponsoring terror should be isolated and taken to task.
“We’ve to bring an end to terrorism and that can only happen the way Americans started after 9/11 terror attack,” the former Army Chief said, apparently referring to the US-led military campaign in Afghanistan to target the Al-Qaida terror outfit which carried out the strikes in New York in 2001.
Gen Rawat, while speaking on the third day of the Raisina Dialogue 2020 here, underlined that there is a need to go on a spree on the global war on terror.
“To do that you have to isolate the terrorists and anybody who is sponsoring terrorism has to be taken to task,” he added.
In this context, he lauded the provision of blacklisting by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of the countries aiding terrorism.
On radicalisation of youth in Kashmir, the Chief of Defence Staff said it can be countered. “You need to know sources, school, colleges, religious places. In Kashmir, we saw radicalisation happening. Now children are being radicalised. There is a need to work for long and choose various ways to counter it.”
