As per available information, details of the number of incidents, casualties of civilians, security personnel and number of terrorist/extremist killed and arrested in the State of Jammu & Kashmir and North-Eastern States are as under:-

Jammu & Kashmir

Year No. of incidents No. of SFs Killed No. of Civilians Killed No. of Terrorists Killed No. of Terrorists Arrested
2008 708 75 91 339 305
2009 499 64 78 239 187
2010 (Up to 31st January) 28 4 4 15 6*

*Figures of terrorist arrested upto 15.2.2010

North Eastern States

Year No. of incidents No. of SFs Killed No. of Civilians Killed No. of Extremists Killed No. of Extremists Arrested
2008 1561 46 466 640 2566
2009 1297 42 264 571 2162
2010 (Up to 31st January) 85 2 12 31 149

Besides the above, as per available information, in areas other than those mentioned above, in the year 2007, major terrorist incidents/bomb blasts occurred, explosion in two unreserved coaches of Samjhauta/Attari Express at Diwana near Panipat, bomb expolsion at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, bomb blasts at Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat Bhandar, Hyderabad, bomb blast at Ajmer Sharief, Ajmer, Rajasthan, bomb blast at Srinagar Cinema Hall, Ludhiana and 5 bomb blasts in local premises in 3 cities in UP, namely, Varanasi, Faizabad & Lucknow.   In these incidents 143, persons lost their lives.   Further, in the year 2008, major terrorist incidents/bomb blasts occurred at CRPF Group Centre, Rampur(U.P.), Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Malegaon(Maharashtra) and Modasa (Gujarat).   In these incidents, 168 persons lost their lives.   There was no major terrorist attack in the year 2009.   However, a bomb blast took place at Pune on 13.2.2010 wherein 17 persons were killed.

There are bilateral mechanisms established with out neighbouring countries in which our security concerns are shared.  Besides, India has Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty in Criminal Matters (MLATs) with 26 countries, in which issues relating to combating of terrorism are taken up.   India is signatory to all 13 U.N. Conventions on Counter Terrorism.

India is a member of Asia Pacific group on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism and has Observer status at Financial Action Task Force.   FIU-IND is a member of the Egmont Group.

This was stated  by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Shri Ajay Maken, in the Rajya Sabha