South Asia’s Future Security: The Danger of Terrorism from Pakistan

Rezumat

Within a year of the Mumbai attacks by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the public outrage that many thought would usher in a political groundswell for a firmer government response, has dissipated. Almost all the political officials who resigned as a result of the attacks either back in their old jobs or promoted to other plumb posts. After a brief hiatus, bombings by LeT and/or its affiliates resumed in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Gaya, Patna and Srinagar killing 100 people in mainland India and around 1000 in Jammu and Kashmir since Mumbai attacks. India has done little of the painful public soul-searching that followed the September 11 attacks on the United States. After the Mumbai attacks, while the US government has commissioned atleast a dozen of official studies on LeT, India government commission none. This article argues while the LeT is gradually growing from strength to strengh by encompassing the role of a political pressure group under the guise of Difa-e-Pakistan, India is blind to the danger unfolding in its western neighbour.