Jammu, June 26: President A P J Abdul Kalam today called for formulating "visionary policies" to deal with terrorism and stressed the need to collectively "address sources of disturbances." Pointing out that certain nations have been indulging in cross-border terrorism, he said: "We need to collectively address the sources of disturbances by formulating visionary policies for national development with security concerns integrated and by executing those mission projects with hard work and sweat."

Kalam, who was addressing the eleventh special convocation of Jammu University here this evening, said terrorism results from various factors like differences in ideologies, religious fanaticism, discrimination and enmity between organisations and nations.

"Constant deprivation leads to frustration and frustration on provocation leads to alienation, which can manifest in two forms of passivism and activism. Activism can manifest itself in constructive or destructive modes. While constructive mode leads to development, destructive mode leads to terrorism, violence and aggression," he said.

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