{"id":57103,"date":"2019-01-09T01:05:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=57103"},"modified":"2019-01-09T01:05:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T19:35:53","slug":"military-preparedness-key-to-national-security-says-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/01\/09\/military-preparedness-key-to-national-security-says-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Military preparedness key to national security, says governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>VISAKHAPATNAM, Jan 8:<\/strong> Arunachal Pradesh Governor BD Mishra, who is on a two-day official tour of Andhra Pradesh, inaugurated a national seminar on disaster management, organised by Andhra University here on Monday.<br \/>\nSpeaking on the topic, &#8216;India&#8217;s security&#8217;, the governor said military preparedness has a big role in national security.<br \/>\nCiting various attacks on India since its independence, and the proxy wars by Pakistan from 1988 to date, he said &#8220;it is of utmost importance that the people of India think, talk, debate, discuss, prepare and practice counter measures to all perceptible threats to the security of the nation.&#8221;<br \/>\nProviding a vivid description of security threats on the borders, land, sea and air, Mishra said China&#8217;s &#8216;String of Pearls&#8217;, religious militancy in Jammu &amp; Kashmir, and the low intensity proxy warfare of Pakistan &#8220;have now become multipronged and extremely serious. All these dangers combined with narcotics trade, arms smuggling, money laundering and cyber-driven crimes are critical threat factors.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe governor said India, which is a &#8220;multiethnic, multilingual, diverse culture society,&#8221; has an unfortunate history of sub-regional conflicts, homeland demands, militancy, and fundamentalist and extra territorial loyalties keen to break the nation.<br \/>\nMishra, a former soldier who fought in all the three major wars &#8211; the 1962 Sino-Indian war, the 1965 Indo-Pak war, and the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war &#8211; and commanded an infantry brigade as a part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka, said that for maintaining the nation&#8217;s territorial integrity, &#8220;a deterrent military preparedness and &#8216;no aggression first&#8217; are the answers.&#8221;<br \/>\nSeveral top ranking officials of the army and the home ministry attended the seminar. (Raj Bhavan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VISAKHAPATNAM, Jan 8: Arunachal Pradesh Governor BD Mishra, who is on a two-day official tour of Andhra Pradesh, inaugurated a national seminar on disaster management, organised by Andhra University here on Monday. Speaking on the topic, &#8216;India&#8217;s security&#8217;, the governor said military preparedness has a big role in national security. Citing various attacks on India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}