Mumbai attacks have local links: Newsweek

ISLAMABAD: Newsweek in its latest edition has said that the Mumbai attacks apparently have been perpetrated by an indigenous group, the Indian Mujahideen.

The article says that these attacks have got some significant indigenous connections, not necessarily from Pakistan or Bangladesh or anywhere else but Indian.

And the problem with these indigenous strikes is that they raise questions about India’s capacity to actually live and make workable a multi-ethnic, as they say, secular Indian state, to maintain that as a national identity and to make it workable, the article says.

So if the attack comes from the outside it does not necessarily damage that national identity side of things, but it does threaten a cross-border level of violence with their neighbour in Pakistan that is probably almost as dangerous, the magazine says.

“…no matter how the Mumbai attack ends up being in terms of who is responsible and where the strings run, they do have an increasing problem with domestic violence or internal violence perpetrated by Indian Muslims and unfortunately it appears Hindu nationalists as well,” the weekly magazine wrote.

The writer of the article urges the US to play its role in helping Pakistan and India find solution to the problem.

“The United States can be helpful, and we can help to find solutions. If the two sides are willing and able to put them on the table, we can bring them closer together.”

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