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...Karachi - educated, a staunch feminist and usually disparaging of all things religious - invokes a popular ditty every time the game is brought up: "I don't like cricket; I love it," she chants (after the 1978 10cc number "Dreadlock Holiday"). When I interviewed one of the founding members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group suspected of orchestrating November's terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the ice was broken with a discussion of a cricket match. And when I visited a conservative seminary campus in Muridke, near Lahore, I was greeted with the timeless scene of young men bowling and batting...
...years, the perpetrators have normally used improvised explosive devices, bomb-laden vehicles and individual suicide bombers. A full-frontal assault is new. The resemblance it bears to the Mumbai attacks, with young men carrying backpacks and openly brandishing their weapons, suggests to some analysts the possible involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group based near Lahore. (See pictures of Mumbai picking up the pieces...
...Others are pointing to the Pakistani Taliban, al-Qaeda and the Kashmiri separatist group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which has bases in southern Punjab. "My own assessment is that it is a Pakistani militant group," says retired general turned analyst Talat Masood. "Whether it is Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e-Mohammed, I can't say." Sri Lankan officials say the Tamil Tigers, who are behind an insurgency in their own country, are not believed to be responsible. (Read TIME's brief history of the Tamil Tigers...
...Mumbai shooters are still at large but are to be indicted, together with six men in custody, on charges of "abetting, conspiracy and facilitation" of an act of terrorism. The accused include Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhwi, the alleged mastermind, and Zarar Shah. Both are considered leading members of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the banned militant group blamed for the attacks. They were arrested in an earlier crackdown on Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a charity now banned after being accused of acting as a front group for LeT. (Watch video of Mumbai residents talking about the attacks...
...biggest threat, Indian intelligence sources say, comes from the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad Islamia (HuJI), which is believed to be part of a loose terror network that includes Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba, the chief suspect in last November's Mumbai attacks. "That is our No. 1 concern," says M.L. Kumawat, director general of the BSF. "Indigenous insurgent groups in Bangladesh have to be dealt with strongly so as not to allow them to use their soil to commit acts of violence in India." (Fencing on the Pakistan border has already made that area easier to patrol...