PRAHAAR
Full Form, Seven Pillars, and Institutional Architecture
PRAHAAR is an acronym encoding its seven strategic pillars:
- P — Prevention of terror attacks to protect Indian citizens and interests
- R — Responses (swift and proportionate to the threat)
- A — Aggregating internal capacities for synergy in a whole-of-government approach
- H — Human rights and Rule of Law-based processes for threat mitigation
- A — Attenuating conditions enabling terrorism (including radicalisation)
- A — Aligning and shaping international efforts to counter terrorism
- R — Recovery and resilience through a whole-of-society approach
- Released by: Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), February 23, 2026
- Legal document status: Policy and strategy document (not an Act of Parliament); provides doctrine-level guidance for all counter-terror stakeholders
- Lead investigation agency: National Investigation Agency (NIA)
- Principal legal regime: Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA)
- First responders: Local police, followed by specialised state and central anti-terror forces
- NSG (National Security Guard): identified as the nodal national counter-terror force under MHA; created under NSG Act, 1986
- New threat dimensions addressed: crypto-based terrorist financing, dark web operational planning, drone use by terror groups against critical infrastructure
- Cross-border terror focus: specifically addresses externally-supported terror networks, infiltration management, and proxy war dimensions
● Tracked since February 24, 2026 · last seen August 25, 2026 · updates as the daily brief publishes
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