New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- Given India's extended fight against terrorism, why a policy document on countering it took so long is hard to fathom. With Prahaar, though-an acronym that lays out India's approach on the menace-we now have a clearly laid out policy.

It advocates swift and proportionate responses to terror threats, the bringing together of government capacities, weakening the conditions enabling radicalization and pursuing a whole-of-society approach to ensure resilience, among other measures.

The broad policy aim is to weaken the terror threat, including by denying terrorists and their financiers access to funds and weapons. Such a doctrine is welcome and should provide the country a policy framework to act within. Ad hoc efforts...