India & Israel -Shake off the Shackles to fight terrorism together
Yamam- an Israeli Counter Terrorist Unit. Picture- Wikimedia During Prime Minister Modi’s ongoing visit to Israel, both countries vowed to oppose the evil of terrorism. It is an apt time to look counter terrorism as a field of cooperation between India and Israel. Cooperating on Training and Tactics On 27 July 2015, three heavily armed Pakistani terrorists stormed a Police Station near Gurdaspur in Punjab. A grim stand-off ensued. Security pundits were of the view that it would be only a matter of time before the elite National Security Guard would be deployed to eliminate them. However, everybody was in for a surprise. It was not the NSG, but the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team of the Punjab Police which carried out the intervention. All the terrorists were killed without so much as a scratch on the face of a SWAT team member. It later emerged that this SWAT team was trained by Israeli experts. The Punjab Police is not the only beneficiary o...