The challenge of terrorism, remains largely unsolved due to lack on agreements between nations as to what & who constitutes a terrorist act.

My terrorism v/s Your terrorism paradigm

1. State sponsorship and safe havens eg. Taliban's sheltering of Al Qaeda, Pakistan's role in sponsoring LeT & JeM.

2. Selective designation of terror groups - eg. US & Russia, China differing on classifying label groups as terrorists.

3. Using of veto powers to block UN designations eg. China's veto in blocking designation of Pakistan based terrorist.

4. Double standards - dense condemnations of terrorist acts in West (eg. 9/11) while muted responses for ones in Africa & Asia.

Needs to be based global approach

1. Agreeing on a common definition.

2. UN reforms - to do away with veto powers and power imbalance in favour of permanent members.

3. Collective action against all forms of terrorism, including state-sponsored, irrespective of location.

4. Making sanctions against terrorist organizations & individuals based on democratic vote.

5. Intelligence sharing, using AI board mechanism to counter use of capital spaces for terrorist financing & radicalization (FATF).

6. Political will must be enhanced.

As noted by PM Modi, there are no good or bad terrorists, therefore all acts must be treated with same importance to disarm it completely.