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India in a map of its planned caliphate. Six months later, ISIS named former
Tehrik-e-Taliban commander Hafiz Saeed Khan as the wali (governor) of the
“Khorasan Province”, which includes India. Propaganda about Khorasan has
not gained significant traction in India, however.

ISIS poses a significant threat to India, but India has not been engaged in
the global fight against the group. If India becomes more involved in the
global fight against the Islamic State by working closely with the United

States in the region, sharing terrorist watch lists, and taking a stronger stance
against Bangladesh, it can have a stronger partner to fight the growing

domestic threat of ISIS while making a global contribution that the US and
the world will likely value.

Solution to the ISIS problem

Defeating the Islamic State requires a holistic strategy to deal

simultaneously with all of the various aspects of ISIS power. Elements
of such a strategy are in place, but by themselves, they are insufficient to

defeat ISIS in an acceptable time frame.

Good intelligence and robust homeland defences are absolutely required

to deal with ISIS-inspired terrorism.

Airpower and special operations forces will continue to degrade ISIS

command and control and logistics, including its lucrative oil smuggling
business.

Intelligence agencies must apply more resources to track people who

have travelled to the Islamic State and then returned home.

To defeat the ISIS, its armed forces must be destroyed and its territory

occupied. This can only be accomplished by ground operations in Syria
and Iraq.

Conclusion