New Delhi (PTI): Rejecting charges that the government was weak on terror, Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Friday said that if being "soft on terror" has helped improve the situation, it should be continued. "If you look at the statistics of incidents, casualties, injuries and property damage in last four years' time and four years before that and if the statistics is favourable for this government, you cannot say we are soft on terror," he told Karan Thapar in 'Devil's Advocate' programme on CNN-IBN. To a specific question if the government was weak on terror, Patil said there was no need for him to join the issue on this point. "Even if we are soft on terror and that method is helping, we should adopt it and continue with it." Asked why the government did not favour TADA or POTA-like law, he said the Unlawful Activities...
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