Global Terrorism Index: India Ranked 13th on the Impact of Terrorism While ISIS Ranked Deadliest Terror Group of the World
By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
25 March
2023
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CPI (Maoist)
Ranked As The 12th Deadliest Terror Group In 2022.
Main
Points:
1. India is one
of the 25 most terror- hit countries.
2. Balochistan
Liberation Army of Pakistan is the fastest growing terror group in Pakistan.
3. Pakistan
ranks 6th on the index.
4. Afghanistan
tops the list of terror- hit countries.
5. South Asia
is the most affected region.
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Insurgency,
armed resistance and terrorism are the most common phenomena in the modern
world. Numerous armed groups are active in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
The activities of most of them come under the definition of terrorism though
the definition of terrorism is largely contested.
The Global
Terrorism Index 2023 has been released which provides an insight into the
impact of terrorism on different countries. The GTI has been prepared by the
Institute of Economics and Peace and ranks 163 countries of the world on four
indicators weighted over five years. The index provides a comprehensive summary
of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism since 2000. It produces an
ordinal ranking of countries on the impact of terrorism. The Global Terrorism
Index is based on data from the Global Terrorism Database which is collected
and collated by the National Consortium and Response to Terrorism at Maryland
University.
According
to the Index, the ISIS and its affiliates were the deadliest terror group in
the world in 2022 while Afghanistan topped the list of worst terror hit
countries. And South Asia was the most affected region of the world. Another
regions that were most affected were Africa and Middle East.
Balochistan
Liberation Army was the fastest growing terror group in Pakistan. Due to a fast
increase in terror incidents, the deaths increased by 120 per cent in Pakistan.
The last year the terrorism related deaths were 292 while this year it is 643.
In Afghanistan, the terrorism related deaths were 633. In Burkina Faso deaths
due to terrorism were 1135, up from 759 in the previous year.
In 2022,
Afghanistan and Pakistan were among the most affected countries in 2020. The
rise in terrorism related activities in the two neighbouring countries was due
to the heightened activities by the TTP and BLA in Pakistan and by the ISIS in
Afghanistan.
After the ISIS,
Al Shabab, BLA, Jamat Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimeen have been marked out as
the deadliest terror groups in the world. The CPI (Maoist) has been marked out
as the 12th deadliest terror group in the world. This group is based in India
and is responsible for a large number of deaths in India according to the South
Asia Terrorism Portal.
The major
countries that are most affected by terrorism are Afghanistan, Burkina Faso,
Somalia, Mali, Syria and Pakistan..
However,
the number of deaths from terrorism globally has fallen by 9 per cent to 6701
since 2015. In South Asia, the deaths fell by 30 per cent to 1354 This fall may
be ascribed to the disengagement of the NATO forces led by the United States in
the Middle East since Donald Trump came to power. The occupation of the US in
these countries on the pretext of fighting terrorism provided terror groups
justification for terror attacks.
In India,
most of the terror attacks take place in Jammu and Kashmir infested by Islamist
terror groups and in the western and central India infested by the Maoists.
Some insurgent groups also carry out terrorist activities in the North East of
India.
The Global
Terrorism Index, therefore, makes it clear that except CPI ( Maoist), all the
major terrorist groups in the world are operated by Islamists. The TTP is
another terror group that has emerged in Pakistan which has not figured in the
GTI due its recent emergence. It will figure in the next GTI as it has
conducted a number of deadly attacks in Pakistan in recent months, killing
hundreds of people. The report flattens the claim of the Muslims that they are
a peace loving community.
These
terrorist organisations draw inspiration and justification for violence and
massacre from the exegeses and commentaries of the Quran produced by renowned
hardline exegetes of the Quran from the middle ages to the modern age.
Establishment of Hukumat-e-Ilahiya ( Rule of God) and Khilafat (
caliphate) have been the major premises on which they build their extremist
ideology.
Blasphemy
is another cause of bloodshed, particularly in South Asia. In Syria, sectarian
ideology was the main cause of destruction as the ISIS got the support of Sunni
Ulema against the Shia regime of Bashar al Assad. In Somalia, Nigeria and
Burkina Faso, opposition to modern education and establishment of Shariah rule
has been the cause of bloodshed and some Muslim political leaders and clerics
covertly and overtly supported these terrorist organisations. These terrorist
organisations cannot survive without the ideological support of clerics and
exegetes. Unless this ideological garbage is thrown to the dust bin, terrorism
cannot be rooted out from the Islamic society.
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