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Kolkata, Dec 13 (IANS) India continues to be a terror target because there is a lack of political will to take and execute firm decisions, an apolitical organisation dealing with national security said Tuesday.

“We are considered a soft nation because we lack the political will to execute firm decisions. We continue to be terror targets because there is a belief among people that they can get away after attacking. Terrorists continue to be alive even after effecting massive attacks,” Seshadri Chari, National General Secretary, Forum for Integrated National Security said.

“The US never witnessed any terror attack after Sept 11, 2001, but India has not been able to prevent their recurrence which shows the difference of political will between the two countries in combating this menace,” added Chari.

He, along with other experts, was speaking at an event organised by FINS to mark the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on Parliament House.

Observing that there were threats from several quarters to India’s external and internal security, Chari called for the formulation of a comprehensive integrated national security policy to combat the threats.

He also called for a comprehensive anti terror law. “Terrorism is a crime against humanity and needs to be dealt with through a stronger set of laws. The existing laws are not stringent enough to create terror among the terrorists.”

Former Director-General of the Railway Protection Force B.P. Saha, however, said the existing laws were strong enough but the country needed determination to implement these laws against terrorists stringently as well as expedite the legal process involving them.