"With roughly half (52 %) the Indian public worried that ISIS poses a major threat to their country, about six-in-ten Indians (62 %) believe that overwhelming military force is the best way to defeat terrorism around the world, said Pew Research Center in its report running into 40 pages.
More than three-fifth of Indians support use of military force to defeat the scourge of terrorism, according to a latest Pew Survey released on Monday which said that about half of the respondents disapprove of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Pakistan policy.
"With roughly half (52 %) the Indian public worried that ISIS poses a major threat to their country, about six-in-ten Indians (62 %) believe that overwhelming military force is the best way to defeat terrorism around the world. Just 21 % say relying too much on such force creates hatred that leads to more terrorism," said Pew Research Center in its report running into 40 pages.
While 68 % of the respondents feel that India is playing a more important role in the world than it was doing 10 years ago, the Pew Research Center in its annual survey, which was conducted among 2,464 respondents from April 7 to May 24, said half of the respondents disapprove of Modi's management of India's volatile relationship with Pakistan.
His Pakistan policy is approved by just 22 %, said the survey which was conducted in the months after the terrorist attack at the Pathankot Air Force base coming from across the border.
"Notably, however, more than half of BJP supporters (54 %) and a plurality of Congress party adherents (45 %) disapprove of the prime minister s handling of relations with Pakistan," the report said.
In the handling of China, supporters of Modi s own party, the BJP, are more likely than adherents of the Congress party to favor his conduct of bilateral relations.
Pew said Indians are ready to support more defence spending.
Across party lines, more than six-in-ten (63 %) think the country should increase spending on national defence, just six % want to decrease it and 20 % want to keep it at current levels.
Notably, Indians who see China's growing military power as a very serious problem are more likely than those who see China s growing military power as a less serious threat to favor increased military spending, it said.
According to Pew, the Indian public's satisfaction with the direction of the country has increased 36 percentage points since 2013, the year before Modi took power.
The survey found that Indian public's ciews on the economy have improved by 23 points.
And belief that today's children will be better off financially than their parents is up eight points.
The survey said that Modi continues to ride a wave of good feeling (81 %) about the way things are going in India, the state of the domestic economy and his own stewardship of the country.
In 2015 Pew Survey, Modi's approval rating was 87 %.
Modi's favorable rating of 81 % is followed by that of Sonia Gandhi (67 %), Rahul Gandhi (63 %) and Arvind Kejriwal (50 %).
Modi has the lowest unfavorability rating of 16 % followed by Arvind Kejriwal (27 %), Sonia Gandhi (31 %) and Rahul Gandhi (32 %).
Like Modi, the ruling BJP has an approval rating of 80 %, followed by Indian National Congress (67 %) and Aam Admi Party (47 %).
About half or more of the public approves of Modi s handling of a range of domestic problems facing the country: helping the poor and dealing with unemployment (both 62 %), handling terrorism (61 %) and dealing with corruption (59 %).
And roughly half or more of Indians in the survey approve of Modi s leadership style: 56 % believe he cares about people like them, 51 % say he stands up for what he believes and 49 % say he brings people together and gets things done, Pew said.
Pew said Indians also favor toughness in dealing with the world.
"Nevertheless, Indians give priority to issues at home. By more than two-to-one (53 % to 23 %) they believe that India should deal with its own problems and let other nations deal with theirs. This public preference for a focus on domestic issues reflects ongoing concerns about a range of issues: Roughly eight-in-ten Indians believe crime, corrupt officials, a lack of employment opportunities and terrorism are very big national problems," Pew said.
Observing that only about a third (31 %) of the public expresses a favorable opinion of their emerging Asian rival, Pew said these positive views are down 10 percentage points in the past year, but unchanged from 2014.
"Another 36 % voice an unfavorable opinion and 32 % have no opinion. Large majorities say Beijing poses serious challenges for India. Seven-in-ten of those surveyed believe that China s economic impact on India is a serious problem, including 45 % who voice the view that it is very serious. Nearly half (48 %) of Indians think China s relationship with Pakistan poses a very serious problem for India," Pew said.
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