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Proxy wars and ISIS pose major challenges for India, National Investigation Agency (NIA) Director General Sadanand Date has said, underscoring that corruption within institutions responsible for national security must end to tackle new hurdles.

He was in Pune on Saturday to attend an event where he gave a lecture on "India's internal security and its challenges".

While Naxalism, Khalistani elements and separatism remain internal challenges, proxy wars and the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) pose a major threat to the nation, said the chief of the country's premier anti-terror probe agency.

"First, some coun...