The internal challenges to Indian securityare growing serious day by day. India has longhistory of separatist and secessionist violence, beit in North-East, Punjab or Kashmir. The nation,presently, is facing not one but two wars withinits own borders. The first, as we all know, is therising threat of Islamic terrorism, but the secondoften overlooked dimension to this internal war,is that of the naxalite terrorists, who are bred andsustained by the Communists Party of India(Marxist-Leninist) CPI (ML). In April 2006, IndianPrime Minister Manmohan Singh called thenaxalite threat the “biggest internal securitychallenge ever faced by our country”
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