Fake Claim About UN Saying India Involved in 72% Terror Activities in Asia Viral

We found no credible news reports or official documents by the UN that India had involvement in terror activities.

Fact-Check: This claim is fake as we did not find any credible reports to prove it.

(Source: The Quint) 

A claim about a 2024 United Nations (UN) research report indicating that India participated in 72.3 percent of terrorist activities in Asia is going viral on social media.

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Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false.

• No credible report attributed to the UN has stated or any other reliable sources have reported this about India.

What we found: At first, we ran a relevant keyword search about this claim but, did not find any report or news article which verified the same.

• A report by WION from 18 February highlighted that a UN report praised India's counter-terrorism operations under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

• We looked for the report and found one by the Security Council of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team concerning terror groups such as Islamic State of Levant (ISIL-Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals.

• It report stated that the ISIL was unable to mount large-scale attacks in India.

• It did not mention anything which noted that India was involved in major terror activities.

The report stated that ISIL was unable to mount large-scale attacks in India.

(Source: UN/Screenshot) 

• We also found the 2025 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) report released by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) from 5 March which ranked India at the fourteenth position.

• Other Asian countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Myanmar ranked higher.

Here is the list of the Global Terrorism Index by IEP.

(Source: IEP/Screenshot) 

Conclusion: The viral claim stating that India was involved in 72.3 percent of the terrorist activities in Asia is fake as we found no reports to verify its authenticity.

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