Sir — Union Minister for Home Affairs Rajnath Singh, while attending an annual conference of police chiefs held recently in Guwahati, asserted that “many foreign terrorist groups think that since a large number of Muslims live in India, they can recruit many of them in their fold and fight for creation of an Islamic country. But Indian Muslims are always ready to fight for the security and sovereignty of the country, and that is why such terrorist groups will not succeed.”
The seriousness lies in the behaviour of the Islamic State recruit Arif Majeed, who is in the custody of the NIA. He has so far shown no sign of remorse or any guilt during his interrogation. This shows that anti-national elements have succeeded in luring at least a few educated Muslim youths of our country. We should be more cautious in the future and immediately try to locate persons linked with terror groups, so that we may be able to liquidate such organisations by understanding their mechanism of operation.