Archive · 29 Sep 2026
Amit Shah Urges 10-Year Roadmap for PRAHAAR Counter-Terror Strategy
Amit Shah wants India to follow a long-term plan to fight terrorism.
The plan is called PRAHAAR.
He said it should guide officials and police stations for the next 10 years.
Authorities should keep studying terrorist incidents to improve their responses.
He also proposed automatic response systems across the counter-terrorism framework.
Shah asked different agencies and police forces to coordinate better.
PRAHAAR has seven parts, including prevention, response, human rights, international cooperation, and recovery.
He also launched a portal intended to help bring fugitives back from other countries.
Police forces were asked to create teams that track fugitives.
Amit Shah called for institutionalising the PRAHAAR counter-terrorism strategy over the next 10 years.
He urged continuous analysis of terrorist incidents and automated counter-terrorism responses at every level.
Shah said PRAHAAR’s principles should reach the police-station, or thana, level.
The conference emphasized proactive, result-oriented coordination among government and security stakeholders.
Shah also launched an extradition portal and urged state police to create dedicated fugitive-tracking teams.
- Who
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah, along with senior central and state police officials, attended the conference.
- What
- A conference discussed institutionalising the PRAHAAR counter-terrorism strategy through a 10-year framework, continuous incident analysis and automated responses.
- When
- Monday.
- Where
- New Delhi.
- Why
- To strengthen counter-terrorism coordination, preparedness and proactive responses among stakeholders.
- Strategy
- PRAHAAR – CT Policy and Strategy
- Proposed timeframe
- 10 years
- Core measures
- Continuous analysis of terrorist incidents and automated responses at every level
- Approach
- A whole-of-society, proactive and result-oriented counter-terrorism framework
- PRAHAAR pillars
- Prevention, Response, Aggregating Internal Capacities, Human Rights, Attenuating Conditions for Terrorism, Aligning International Efforts, and Recovery and Resilience
- Additional initiative
- An extradition portal intended to expedite efforts to bring fugitives back from abroad
- Participants
- Central officials, heads of Central Armed Police Forces and Central Police Organisations, police chiefs from 15 states, and Anti-Terrorist Squad chiefs
