Hmm.. Bad News & Good News all over ...
The
Editorial says AS tragic as Wednesday`s triple blasts in Mumbai were, no headway has as yet been made into identifying the perpetrators. What is welcome though is that the Indian government has ignored the knee-jerk reactions of some of the hawks in the opposition and the media who have pointed a finger of blame at Pakistan without evidence, and has decided to go ahead with the foreign ministers` talks scheduled later this month. In an atmosphere where terrorism has often derailed the peace process, it is a positive sign that India has risen above the blame game. The shift in the Indian policy was highlighted by Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao who, speaking in a television interview earlier this month, said that Pakistan had `altered` its stance on terrorism and that disengaging with Islamabad after the November 2008 Mumbai attacks had not been a productive course of action.
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The bottom line is that the peace process must continue. Neither government can afford to play into the hands of non-state actors.
That I have to agree and that is vital to the people living subcontinent all the way from Bangladesh to Afghanistan... To some extent it effects even Iran..
The Bad news is
Gunmen kill ten passengers in Upper Kurram PARACHINAR: A government official says gunmen have killed ten bus passengers in an ambush in northwest Pakistan.
The official Mohammed Ali said three people were also injured in Saturday’s attack in the Upper Kurram region bordering Afghanistan. He said the dead and injured had been transported to a hospital.
Ali says it’s not immediately clear who were behind the attack and an investigation is under way. Kurram has witnessed scores of such attacks and kidnappings for ransom in the past several years.
The military has launched offensives against Taliban militants there, but violence has continued.
Blast hits Kerbala during Shia rite; three killedBAGHDAD: A bomb attached to a policeman’s car blew up on Saturday in the Iraqi city of Kerbala, killing at least three people and wounding 15 others during an annual Shia pilgrimage, officials said.
It was the third attack in the holy city in the last two days as Shias observe the anniversary of Imam Mohammed al-Mehdi’s birthday, one of the annual pilgrimages that have evolved into shows of strength for Iraq’s majority Shias since the fall of Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.
The latest blast occurred near a security checkpoint in Kerbala, 80 kilometres southwest of Baghdad, and most of the casualties were police officers, police and provincial council officials said.
On Friday a car bomb exploded in a garage near a hospital west of Kerbala. Police said four people were killed and 20 wounded.
In a separate incident, a bomb placed under a parked car killed two people and wounded four others in northern Kerbala on Friday, according to an army commander, while a hospital source said the blast killed three people and wounded 23 others.
well., Wherever there is shia/sunni problem these killings and bombings have become yearly Islamic ritual since that alleged war by the followers of that virgin Wife of Prophet, Aisha(daughter Abu BAKRA and the followers of Ali .. The son-in law of Prophet.
Topic: Near simultaneous blasts kill at least 13 and injures 100s in Mumbai says news