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QUILL IAM
India
We urge India to co-operate with to Indian, Pakistani, and Afghan
intelligence sharing initiatives in order to boost regional security.
India’s relationship with the US and the information sharing and
synergy in security that is likely to result from it will have
important positive implications for counter-terrorism. Equally
important are the potential spillover effects that can be gained
from increased security to India’s neighbors.
President Obama’s visit to India in January 2015 resulted in India
and the United States moving towards joint production and codevelopment
of weapon systems, along with intensifying counterterror
cooperation and undertaking joint military exercises under
the Defence Framework Agreement (DFA). 122 Major developments
include the United States and India “placing each other at the same
level as their closest partners,” 123 and discussions included
strengthening process-related difficulties in defence trade, and
collaborating with technology. Such initiatives would address
India’s two prominent and overlapping terrorist groups – IM and
SIMI, both of which focus on cybercrime.
We strongly encourage the Indian government to better engage
with its Muslim community and to decrease the appeal of IS’
projections of an Islamic caliphate, as well as to reduce the appeal
of militant ideologies that cater to Indian Muslims’ grievances. We
ask the BJP to take swift, proactive steps to clamp down on coercive
conversions to Hinduism, and allay fears that state welfare is
conditional on Hinduism.
We advise the Indian government to focus on sources of
corruption, including but not limited to, entitlement programs and
social spending schemes. Corruption stifles economic growth and
inhibits the output of state services. We ask that state government
efforts to reduce corruption across India are fostered, and civic
anti-corruption organizations such as Bharat Swabhiman Trust are
supported.
The government should take steps to invest in long-term counterextremism
work, focusing on cyber extremism as well. Such efforts
would help combat the popularity and the ease of cyber-crime.
Quality education that focuses on integration within India, and on
strengthening human rights commitments to religious freedoms,
should be fostered within schools, colleges, and universities.
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