Pakistan's Reactions.

The Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri initially linked the Bombay blasts on July 11,2006 with the lack of real progress in finding a solution to the Kashmir problem. After 0bjections to such a statement raised by the Indian Foreign Secretary, Shyam Saran, the Pakistani authorities said that Kasuri was misquoted by Reuters.

Now Pakistan tried to clarify to the international media that everytime a blast happens in India and fingers are pointed at Pakistan. They objected to this fingerpointing(towards Pakistan) by India. What does Pakistan expect India to do? The whole world has agreed that Pakistan is a hot bed of terrorism. The United States has confirmed the existence of terrorist camps in Pakistan. So who is to be blamed for attacks on such a large scale? The amount of expertise in handling such sensitive explosives, the procurement of these explosives and the ability to conduct such coordinated blasts makes it amply clear that only a very well organised terrorist group could have done that. The intelligence agencies have no doubts that either the Lashkar-e-Taiba or the Jaish-e-Mohammed are behind these blasts, and more probable seems to be the Lashkar. Still India has not blamed any organisation for the blasts before getting conclusive evidence and even the SIMI(Students Islamic Movement of India) is under scanner.

India just asked Pakistan to shut-down the terrorist camps. Even that reaction was too much for the Pakistani Foreign Office to take. Pakistan better see to the reactions of Israel recently on Hezbollah's activities in Lebanon. This was the mildest possible way in which India could have raised it's concerns. But even this won't be aggreable to Pakistan. How long can this go on?