As graphic pictures were broadcast on television of mangled bodies strewn across roads, commentators were quick to blame militant groups with ties to Pakistan’s intelligence services, particularly the army’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The claims resonated in a city regularly traumatised by rush-hour attacks. The principal suspect in Wednesday’s bombings, Lashkar e-Taiba (LeT) has form in perpetrating atrocities.
Less than three years ago, it plunged vast, crowded Mumbai into a four-day siege at top hotels and central landmarks that left 168 dead.
In 2006 another fundamentalist group with Pakistani support planted seven bombs on the city’s railway network, killing more than 200.
Although India has its own security failings and home grown fundamentalists could yet be held responsible, New Delhi’s complaints that Pakistan has failed to control militant groups responsible for cross-border attacks will strengthen.
Pakistan has already banned LeT and Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former president, personally promised to stop terrorism directed at India but groups have continued to operate.
Indian officials have complained that, despite arrests of top LeT figures, the jihadist movement has a growing following.
Diplomats on Wednesday night braced for diplomatic relations between the neighbours to fall into a tail spin. The attacks come at a time when Pakistan is particularly vulnerable across the diplomatic spectrum. It has fallen out with America after it was caught red-handed sheltering Osama bin Laden. Almost a third of American military aid has been withheld.
No country has suffered more from terrorism than Pakistan. Hopefully India will refrain from the traditional blame game this time and will have a fresh look at the whole scenario of terrorism in the region. Cooperation with Pakistan would be the only way to thwart the evil designs of the terrorists.
Your anology to call it traditional blaming game needs revision. Seeing or experiencing is believing. If some one has experienced it and has seen the whole episode unfolding with his/her own eyes how he or she can agree to your assumptions. Spy agencies do all these games however very tactfully. Just see dialouge between Paksitan and India are to begin. Hen Clinton has scheduled visit to India. Particularly at this juncture such an act is 100% planned act. Survival of Pak Army lies in the philosophy of highlightinng its importance for the existence of Pakistan and to achienve this aim it keeps on invloving in covert acts against neighbouring countires through ISI and later start of blame games. As long Army remains the real ruler of Pakistan and very sincere civil leadership does not emerge on Pakistani soil, such games will continue. Blood of innocent people will keep on flowing on the streets and no one will bother.
We should not get involved in levelling such serious allegations about the Army of any country.
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