In February 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) released India's first-ever comprehensive National Counter-Terrorism Policy and Strategy titled 'PRAHAAR', marking a paradigm shift from a reactive security stance to a proactive, intelligence-driven doctrine. The policy outlines a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach, combining intelligence, law enforcement, technology, and international cooperation.

PRAHAAR is built on seven pillars: prevention of terror attacks; swift and proportionate responses; aggregating internal capacities through a whole-of-government approach; human-rights and rule-of-law based processes; attenuating the conditions enabling terrorism and radicalisation; aligning international efforts; and recovery and resilience through a whole-of-society approach. It addresses modern threats from drones, encrypted messaging applications, the dark web, and cryptocurrency-based terror financing. The policy instead highlights disruption of terror-funding networks under Indian law and continued action against terrorist misuse of information and communications technology through technology investment and private partnerships.

Institutionally, PRAHAAR anchors on the Multi Agency Centre (MAC) and Joint Task Force on Intelligence (JTFI) under the Intelligence Bureau for real-time intelligence sharing between central and state agencies. For Rajasthan, which shares a 1,070 km international border with Pakistan and has historically faced cross-border infiltration challenges, PRAHAAR's provisions on border security intelligence, radicalisation attenuation, and inter-agency coordination are of direct operational relevance.