More than 170 people were killed in a series of attacks in Mumbai in November, with two five-star hotels among the targets of gunmen armed with powerful assault rifles and grenades. Getty ImagesFrom Wall Street Journal:
South and Central Asia is the most explosive region in the world today, especially in the aftermath of the Mumbai massacres in late November, which have indefinitely stalled the four-year-long hesitant peace process between India and Pakistan. Now both countries are playing war games with each other and trading accusations about the perpetrators and their connections to the Pakistan military and intelligence agencies.
India, the U.S. and Britain have said that the extremists behind the Mumbai attacks belong to Lashkar-e-Taiba, an al Qaeda-affiliated group that in the past has acted as an arm of the Pakistan military's Interservices Intelligence (ISI). Pakistan's weak and barely empowered civilian government is being pushed hard by the army to take an ultra-nationalist line against the Indians. This crisis is likely to continue well into the new year.
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Update: India says hands Mumbai attack evidence to Pakistan -- Yahoo News/Reuters
My Comment: Pakistan has always operated according to their own agenda. Outside influences from the U.S., China, and Saudi Arabia have never crystallized into tangible progress from the Pakistani Government. They always accepted the money .... and hoped that their promises to do something would be enough to placate the outside world. Once the money had been accepted .... no progress ever occurred.
Pakistan is a failed state. It is financially and economically broke. It is in a terrible civil war with its Taliban extremists. To work with such a country is .... in my humble opinion .... impossible.
But what can we do?