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Zardari leads a government whose promise has faded over the past year, in spite of a heady few weeks of triumph after undoing the military leadership of former President Pervez Musharraf. Now Zardari has to deal with Indian charges not only that the Mumbai assailants used Pakistan as their base to organize their attacks but that Pakistan's shadowy but powerful military spy outfit, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), may once again be linked to the radicals allegedly behind the late November assault on India's financial center. The old, poisonous contest between civilian and military leadership seems...
...Your cover stories suggest that Muslims, who make up 13.4% of India's population, are underprivileged and that Hindus and Muslims are polarized. In fact, most Indians see themselves as Indian first, not Hindu or Muslims, and Muslims are well represented at the most prominent and influential levels of Indian society. Some of the most popular Bollywood stars are Muslims, including actor Sharukh Khan. Mumbai's Police Commissioner, Hasan Gafoor, is a Muslim. India is and always has been a multi-faith society. The media needs to calm down and stop its wild speculation and its hunger for Pulitzer Prizes...
...terrorists struck Mumbai while election campaigns were underway in four Indian states. The long queues of voters and the results - victory in three states for India's ruling Congress party - are a clear message to the terrorists that their cowardly killing of innocent people cannot make Indians afraid. India's government is working to make the country a safe and prosperous place for investment. The international community should do its part by putting pressure on Pakistan to eradicate its schools of terrorism. Jacob Sahayam adelaide, South Australia...
...Still, the planes allegedly entered Pakistan near the two cities of Lahore and Muzaffarabad, where the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba - which has been accused by Indian and British investigators of planning the Mumbai attacks - had been allowed to operate under the aegis of its charitable wing, Jamaat-ud-Daawa, until its leader was put under house arrest on Thursday. Pakistani analysts suggest that the "inadvertent" incursion may have been a warning that if strong action was not taken against the accused terror group by Pakistan, India would take matters into its own hands. Zardari stressed that his government...
...with the assistance of the directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in 1990 to serve as a proxy fighter in the disputed territory of Kashmir. The ISI has been repeatedly accused by U.S. officials of maintaining links to the terrorist group, which was involved in an attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001. That incident brought the two countries to the brink of war. In 2002, Lashkar-e-Taiba was banned, but it quickly resurfaced under a different name. Parts of the ISI, which still maintains that India is Pakistan's principal threat, are loath to crack down on such...