Highlighting the rising misuse of expertise by terrorist teams, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday stated that social media platforms and the Internet are actually typically used for fanaticism and propaganda to destabilize the society.
Speaking on the particular assembly of the UNSC’s Counter-Terrorism Committee in New Delhi, Jaishankar stated terrorists typically use “technology, money and the ethos of open society to attack freedom, tolerance and progress”.
“The Internet and social media platforms have become powerful tools in the toolkit of terrorist groups,” he stated.
Delivered the keynote tackle on the plenary session of the UNSC Special Meeting on ‘Combating the Use of New and Emerging Technologies for Terrorist Purposes’ in New Delhi in the present day. pic.twitter.com/1rIVnAvSwe
— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) 29 October 2022
To present help to counter-terrorism initiatives in member states, Jaishankar introduced that India will make a voluntary contribution of half 1,000,000 {dollars} this yr to the United Nations Trust Fund to fight terrorism.
Jaishankar on Saturday pointed to Pakistan saying the UN’s counter-terrorism sanctions regime has been efficient in serving notices to nations which have turned terrorism right into a state-funded enterprise.
According to the international minister, the expertise posed new challenges for the federal government, particularly because of the nation’s “nascent regulatory environment”.
He additionally flagged the danger posed by the unregulated use of unmanned aerial techniques. “Being a comparatively low-cost various, coupled with ease of entry, the misuse of those unmanned aerial platforms for nefarious functions corresponding to supply of weapons and explosives and focused assaults by terrorist teams poses an imminent risk, ” They stated.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
