New Delhi: Save for Jammu and Kashmir, the rest of the country is secure from terrorism, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval has said. Asserting that India has been able to effectively counter terrorism, he claimed that the last major incident happened in 2013.

“Facts are facts, and they cannot be disputed. Terrorism in this country has been effectively countered. We had a major incident of terrorism on July 1, 2005, and the last one in 2013 in the hinterland. Except for Jammu and Kashmir, which had been a theatre of a proxy war or a covert warfare for Pakistan, which is a different ballgame, the whole country has remained secure from terrorist attacks. Efforts were made. People were arrested. Explosives are recovered,” Doval said in his Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture on Governance,

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