The following is a report on terrorist activities in India Published by Indian Times. This should serve as an eye opener for those who are blinded by the Indian propaganda of Terrorist activities in Pakistan. Most terrorist activity takes place in India far from Pakistani borders by local separatists who want to have a free homeland outside the British cobbled Indian Union.
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India
Had The Highest Number Of Blasts In The World In The Last Two Years, More Than
Iraq, Syria And Pakistan
FEBRUARY 12, 2017
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Though
India isn't at war at present like many countries in Middle-East, yet India had
the highest number of bomb blasts in the world in the past two years. According
to the statistics of the National Bomb Data Centre (NBDC), which is part of
NSG, India's number in terms of having blasts is even greater to countries like
Iraq, Syria and Pakistan which are more or less at war for the last decade.
The
NBDC analyses and disseminates data related to bombing incidents in India and
across the world.
Bombshell Tells how
India fares when it comes to blasts
In 2016, India witnessed over 337 Improvised
Explosive Devices (IED) blasts. According to Bombshell, the journal
published NBDC, nin 2015, a total of 268 IED
blast rocked various parts of the country whereas country saw 190 blasts in
2014, 283 blasts in 2013 and 365 in 2012.
In
comparison, Iraq, one of the most hostile places at present in the world,
witnessed a total of 221 IED blasts last year to be in the second spot in the
list.
Our
neighbour Pakistan with 161 IED blasts remained at fourth spot to be followed
by another hostile place Afghanistan with 132 IED blasts, Turkey with followed
by 71 in Thailand, 63 in Somalia and 56 in Syria.
In
2015, Iraq witnessed 170 IED blasts, Pakistan 208, Afghanistan 121, Iraq 170
and Syria 41.
The
states which suffered the highest number of IED blasts last year were
Chhattisgarh-60, Jammu and Kashmir-31, Kerala-33, Manipur-40, Odisha-29, Tamil
Nadu-32 and West Bengal-30.
Last
year, one among many high-casualty bomb blasts took place in Bihar on July 18.
Ten commandos of an elite CoBRA battalion of the CRPF were killed when a squad
of 200 Maoists trapped and cordoned the troops and exploded about 22 IEDs in
the Aurangabad-Gaya forest area in Bihar.
Some of the other
major IED incidents in India were:
Analysis of IED blasts
in India
Last
year, there was a 26 per cent increase in IED blast incidents vis-a-vis 2015
and casualties have increased by 3 per cent vis-a-vis 2015, according to the
NBDC.
An
analysis of IED data for the last 10 years (2007-2016) has revealed that there
has been an average of 277 blasts, 223 fatal casualties and 724 non-fatal
casualties over the years.
