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Much as I detest Pakistan's pivotal role in promoting terrorism in the Indian subcontinent, I must argue that even the Paki Govt. (or their pet terrorist outfits) are not that stupid to launch attacks on visiting cricket players on its own soil.

Smells like RAW in here

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US promoted Taliban in Afghan against Russia... at some point they went out of control and turned against US itself... I think it is the same story here.. With all the international pressure on Pak, they may have started acting against terrorists and this could be a warning message back to govt...

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I heard an Indian diplomat once say, "Every State has an Army, but in Pakistan, the Army has a State."

Slowly but surely, Pakistan's Pandora Box is opening itself to the eyes of the watching world.

There is no established authority existing in Pakistan today. It is nothing but a rogue state, and the process of self-disintegration has begun!

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What are you talking about ?

The whole world is watching at the moment ...

India can not afford to take a such as step at current time, they are fighting threw diplomatic way . so they can not afford to take any wrong step at the moment.

Pakistan is only blaming India to divert direction to wrong side

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remember India's strong side is they are against terrorism not supporting terrorism

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I heard an Indian diplomat once say, "Every State has an Army, but in Pakistan, the Army has a State."

Slowly but surely, Pakistan's Pandora Box is opening itself to the eyes of the watching world.

There is no established authority existing in Pakistan today. It is nothing but a rogue state, and the process of self-disintegration has begun!

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Whether it is Taliban or Lashkar, it does not matter. If you are following the developments about SWAT, then you will know where that country is heading. Zardari should know as his wife when she was the PM, encouraged Taliban to protect crucial supply routes. In Afghan, I think Taleban means students (source -Wikipedia). There we go. Uneducated, misguided and rogue students.

KM

Another angle to this story:

1.Is it a contract by LTTE through their Pakistani contact ?.

2.If LTTE can do it, what stops the Indian government do it ?.

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http://www.rediff.com/news/2009/mar/03raman-harkat-repays-an-old-debt-to-ltte-in-lahore.htm

B.Raman

Harkat repays an old debt to LTTE in Lahore?

March 03, 2009

Six players of the Sri Lankan cricket team, which had arrived on a visit to Pakistan, are reported to have been injured and four policemen killed when 10 or more persons wielding hand-held weapons, including hand-grenades, attacked a bus in which the team was going to the Gaddafi Stadium [Images] in Lahore [Images] on Tuesday morning.
The attack has been recorded on closed circuit TV and should enable the Pakistani authorities to identify the terrorists and the organisation to which they belong. The Sri Lankan government has advised the team to cancel the visit and return home.


While it is too early to assess as to who might have been responsible for the attack and why, one has to recall past instances of contacts of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam with the Harkat u -Mujahideen (known as the Harkat ul Ansar before 1997), a member of the International Islamic Front of the Al Qaeda [Images], and the role played by the commercial ships of the LTTE [Images] in the 1990s in facilitating heroin smuggling from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.


In 1993, the Indian Coast Guard intercepted an LTTE ship in which Kittu, an LTTE leader, was travelling from Karachi to the Wanni region of northern Sri Lanka [Images]. When cornered by the Coast Guard, the LTTE cadres on board the ship set fire to it and it sank.


Kittu chose to go down with the ship in order to avoid falling into the hands of the Coast Guard. Some members of the crew jumped from the sinking ship and were arrested and interrogated. The subsequent investigation brought out that the ship was carrying a consignment of arms and ammunition which was loaded by the HuM cadres at Karachi, in the presence of some officers of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and the Pakistan navy.


Reports received in 1994-95 had indicated that the LTTE had helped the HuM in smuggling arms and ammunition in its ships to jihadi elements in southern Philippines and that in return for this the HuM and the ISI had gifted some anti-aircraft weapons, ammunition and surface-to-air missiles to the LTTE.


Since 9/11, this source for clandestine arms procurement and heroin smuggling for the LTTE has dried up due to the deployment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ships off Pakistan to prevent any shipping activity in support of the Al Qaeda.


The HuM continues to have an active presence in southern Philippines and the Harkat ul Jihad al Islami in the Arakan area of Myanmar and in southern Thailand. One cannot rule out the possibility of the HuM --- and possibly even the HuJI --- maintaining fraternal ties with the LTTE despite its Hindu/Christian background and past anti-Muslim policies in the areas controlled by it.


These are opportunistic alliances to assist each other and the fact that the LTTE had followed an anti-Muslim policy should not come in their way. In past articles, I had mentioned that the ISI's arms gifts to the LTTE despite its anti-Muslim policies started after its assassination of Rajiv Gandhi [Images] in May 1991.

Against this background, a possible line of enquiry should be whether the HuM or any of its allies in the IIF is repaying a debt to the LTTE for its past assistance by attacking the Sri Lankan cricket team.




The writer is Additional Secretary (retired), Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, New Delhi [Images], and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. E-mail:

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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.

1) First, let us wish the injured Sri Lankan players a speedy recovery. Sadly, the physiological effects of the attacks will be far deeper and longer. This might even have ruined the player’s career for good.

2) Having said that, the Sri Lankan cricket board (especially Arjuna ranatunga) is to be blamed squarely for making a show of bravado In spite of all the countries pulling out of playing in Pakistan due to extreme terror threats.

3) Today Pakistan’s situation is ‘Lunatics have taken over the asylum’.
You can catch terrorists if they are here and there. For goodness sake, whom do you catch if each and everyone has suicidal tendencies?
By all estimates, there are close to 33 million unemployed ‘Ajmal kasabs’ running around!

4) The only available solution, for all countries is to close their borders and quarantine Pakistan for time being. At least, this will prevent killers with backpacks from running around gunning down innocents.

Stay safe everyone.

Seenappa