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New Delhi, Jan 20 : National Security Advisor (NSA)Shivshankar Menon has defended the country's strategy to deal with militancy and strongly denied that India was a soft power.
To a poser on whether India was a soft power when tackling militancy was concerned, Menon pressed that the country's strategies to deal with the issue was intact and effective.
"Most states have a problem with terrorism, and there are issues of how do you deal with terrorism, even states maybe you regard as hard, they have these problems as well. You can have a legitimate debate on which is the right way to deal with it. Are we dealing it the right way? But I don't think that has anything to do with the image that India projects," said Menon.
"I think here we were talking about, what our own strategic culture is, and what it leads us to do. I think that is what we were trying to discuss here the image is one part of it that you could use," he added.
Menon, who delivered the first memorial lecture in memory of national security analyst K. Subramanyam here on Thursday, also stressed on the need to have more think tanks, as the government needed such resources to provide a different and broader perspective on issues nationals and regional concerns.
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