Terrorism
affects economy
India had
recently hosted leaders of the five-nation BRICS (An association of five major
emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as
well as the seven-nation BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral
Technical and Economic Cooperation), which together represent two-thirds of
humanity and more than a quarter of the world’s growth. BRICS came together in 2006
because of their promise as key
“emerging economies”. They could not
grab the world’s attention and challenge the “old order” as Russia, India, China, Brazil and South
Africa remain leaders in their respective regions. They normally focus on
financial systems, development initiatives, sharing of resources like water,
oil, precious minerals and land, as well as battling climate change and poverty.
But in the meet
that took place in Goa the focus was on a single issue: terrorism. Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to anchor his remarks on concerns
about cross-border terrorism.
Terrorism is the
major obstacle in path of India's development. Terrorism needs to be resolved
and it is very important for the countries like Russia and China in BRIC to
understand who they are supporting and what should be done for the growth of
India. Russia and China are Pakistan friendly members, China especially so.
Indeed, both see a major role for Pakistan in their internal problems with
Islamic terrorism. The BRICS are relatively closed, crony capitalism driven
economies, with Russia being an essentially oil exporting country.
India signed
S-400 deal with Russia and many other deals with other countries and also
focused over terrorism. Terrorism is a road block in India's development and
especially terror export from Pak. PM Modi is initially focusing on completing
level 1, without which we can't go to level 2 of development. Even if BRICS
summit was dominated by terror export, then it is right. This is the need of
the hour and BRICS is another platform to fulfill this need. All the countries
of the world should come forward to curb the global problem which is terrorism.
Every responsible country should join hand to fight against terrorism.
The mother of
terrorist country should be boycotted by civilized and peace loving country. India
should apply international pressure on Pakistan to stop these terror factory to
destroy world. PM Modi is right in setting the tone about terrorism and how it
derails economic agenda. It’s important to tell China and Russia who are
cosying up to Pakistan and indirectly supporting terrorism against India. One
should understand the state of terrorism Pakistan is imposing, and cannot sit
idle like Congress which just ignored the issue.
Terrorism affects
economy. All economies will fall if the terrorists are given a free hand
without any control. So speaking about combating terror is also a part of
economy. As one of the affected countries, which other platform is suitable to
talk about that? Economics happens in presence of peace, when your borders are
not secured you cannot impress investments.
In spite of
India's concerted efforts on several international forums including the current
one on projecting terror as the primary - and not the only - issue affecting
every nation, and Pakistan as a country sponsoring terror activities, China is
still hell-bent on supporting Pakistan. So India was
right in focusing on terrorism.
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