Terrorism is a significant threat in India. Mumbai in particular has been targeted frequently by terrorist organizations from Pakistan. Some key attacks in Mumbai include bombings in 1993 that killed 257 people and the 2008 attacks that killed 172. Different types of terrorist attacks seen in India include bombings, suicide attacks, rocket and mortar attacks, and concerns have been raised about potential nuclear attacks. Terrorism is a problem that afflicts many parts of India on an ongoing basis.

1. Terrorism
A Problem for India

2. Index
What is Terrorism
Terrorism in Mumbai
List of Terror attack in Mumbai
Video

3. What Is Terrorism
A common definition of terrorism is the systematic
use or threatened use of violence to intimidate a
population or government and thereby effect
political, religious, or ideological change.
Terrorism in India, according to the Home
Ministry, poses a significant threat to the state.
Terrorism in India are basically two types external
and internal, external terrorism emerge from
neighboring countries and internal terrorism
emulates from religious or communal
violence and Naxalite–Maoist insurgency . Terror
activities involve either Indian or foreign citizens.

4. The regions with long term terrorist activities today
are Jammu and Kashmir, Mumbai, Central
India (Naxalism) and the Seven Sister states.
 As of 2006, at least 232 of the country’s 608 districts
were afflicted, at differing intensities, by various
insurgent and terrorist movements. In August 2008,
National Security Advisor M K Narayanan has said that
there are as many as 800 terrorist cells operating in the
country.
Terrorism in India has often been alleged to be
sponsored by Pakistan. After most acts of terrorism in
India, many journalists and politicians accuse Pakistan's
intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence of
playing a role. Recently, both the US and Afghanistan
have accused Pakistan of carrying out terrorist acts in
Afghanistan.

6. TerrorisminMumbai
Mumbai has been the most preferred target
for most terrorist organizations, primarily
the separatist forces from Pakistan. Over
the past few years there have been a series
of attacks, including explosions in local
trains in July 2006, and the most recent and
unprecedented attacks of 26 November
2008, when two of the prime hotels, a
landmark train station, and a Jewish
Chabad house, in South Mumbai, were
attacked and sieged.

7. ListofterrorattacksinMumbai
•12 March 1993 - Series of 13 bombs go off, killing 257
•6 December 2002 - Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar,
killing 2
•27 January 2003 - Bomb goes off on a bicycle in Vile Parle,
killing 1
•14 March 2003 - Bomb goes off in a train in Mulund, killing
10
•28 July 2003 - Bomb goes off in a bus in Ghatkopar, killing 4
•25 August 2003 - Two Bombs go off in cars near the
Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar, killing 50

8. •11 July 2006 - Series of seven bombs go off in trains,
killing 209
•26 November 2008 to 29 November 2008 - Coordinated
series of attacks, killing at least 172.
•13 July 2011 - Three coordinated bomb explosions at
different locations, killing 26
•13 February 2010 - a bomb explosion at the German
Bakery in Pune killed fourteen people, and injured at
least 60 more
•1 August 2012 - four bomb explosion at various
locations on JM Road, Pune injured 1 person

9. Bombing
Suicide attacks
Rocket and Mortar attacks
Nuclear attacks

10. Bombings
These may be implanted in automobiles to make a car
bomb, planted on the roadside to detonate near target
vehicles, or even strapped to the bodies of individuals
for suicide attacks. From a tactical perspective, each of
these methods have positives and drawback, for
instance car bombs act as their own delivery
mechanisms and can carry a relatively large amount
of explosives with weights of up to and over 1000
pounds (450 kg), while a suicide vest has a much
smaller payload but may allow the wearer access to
spaces and individuals that vehicles cannot.

11. Suicide attacks
The number of attacks using suicide tactics has grown
from an average of fewer than five per year during the
1980s to 180 per year between 2000 and 2005, and from
81 suicide attacks in 2001 to 460 in 2005.] These attacks
have been aimed at diverse military and civilian targets,
including in Sri Lanka, in Israel since July 6,
1989, in Iraq since the US-led invasion of that country in
2003, and in Pakistan and Afghanistan since 2005.
Between 1980 and 2000 the largest number of suicide
attacks was carried out by separatist Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam of Sri Lanka. The number of attacks
conducted by LTTE was almost double that of nine other
major extremist organizations.[7]

12. Rocket and mortar attacks
The use of rocket and mortar attacks had been
widely used from 1982–2012, in the example of the
middle east rocket attacks against cities and
settlements had been carried out by political entities
such as Hezbollah and Hamas (not counted as state
terrorism) and to non political organization such
as Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad Movement in
Palestine, al-Qaeda and many others. the attacks
very from lunching mortar (qassam) shells and
rockets up to using a ballistic missiles by Hezbollah.

13. Nuclear attacks
Concerns have also been raised regarding attacks
involving nuclear weapons. It is considered plausible
that terrorists could acquire a nuclear weapon.
Pakistan s acquisition of deadly nuclear weapon is a
matter of serious security concern as they can
provide these nuclear weapons to terrorists which
can be used upon us which will cause a heavy loss of
life and property .