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WASHINGTON, July 17: The US has so far not seen any evidence to suggest that Pakistan or Pakistan-based groups were involved in last week’s Mumbai blasts, a State Department official said on Monday. “The evidence to who is responsible, we have not seen yet … we will wait for the results of the investigation,” said Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher while briefing South and Central Asian journalists on United States policy ambitions in the two regions. Describing the blasts as a ‘horrible tragedy,’ Mr Boucher said they were executed by “somebody with evil intent, with local knowledge … lot...

The difference in reaction from Israel and India to attacks by terror organizations is so stark. I thought it would be a good topic to discuss. I am sorely disappointed in India's response so far to the largest attack on their soil since the last Bombay blasts in 1993. The Prime Minister issued a statement today saying that India wants to see more action from Pakistan on curbing Terrorism. Contrast that with a strategic and surgical military action by Israel to eliminate similar terror threat from its borders. Is the Islamic bomb (in the hands of Pakistan) really helping as...

The awful rush-hour bombings of trains in Mumbai raise an important and ominous question: How far can India be pushed? This question was asked by a former director for South Asia at the US National Security Council, Xenia Dormandy, Wednesday as the United States - from President George Bush to the mainstream American media - joined the rest of the world in condemning the terror attacks in India. Pakistan needs to respond to militants, she herself answered in an article in the Washington Post, noting that in December 2001 India and Pakistan almost went to war when a group of...