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First of all the attacks of Mumbai are not justifiable in any law or code of conduct. The accident had far reaching implications at regional level as well as global international relations. Sour of Pak-India relations, hostile nuclear South Asia, continuous expected blame game, damage to Indian national interest, and impending Hindu-Muslim conflicts in India are some of the aspects of this crisis. Its a fact that United nations has no agreed definition of terrorism which can prevent a state to intrude militarily in another state to achieve absolute gain. Most of the part of war on terr, Iraq issue, is carried out without the permission of united nations to do so. But here we see Mumbai attacks as an act of “terrorism” as it is justifiable by any definition of Indian law or moral code of conduct. Who carried out these attacks? it’s a big question and everyone is blindly giving statements. Let’s evaluate some blame game possibilities.

One possibility is those were militants from Hayderabad Dakan because the terrorists have themselves admitted that on the media interview. It is true that Hayderabad Dakan had seen worst Hindu-Muslim riots and communal killings and nowadays there are many militant organizations are operating there. The culture of grievance, culture of violence and ideological clash (two nation theory) which are called as the three pillars of terrorism have deep roots in Indian hayderabad. So, a terrorism from from Hayderabadi militants is very expected.

Second possibility is the terrorists were from Pakistan and ISI is involved in this operation. This is a least vigilant statement at this time. Pakistan is suffering from internal as well as external problems. Situation in FATA, economic crisis, energy crisis, judicial crisis, and global war on terror are some of the problems which Pakistan is facing nowadays. Military of Pakistan was even not in a position to protect her former chief Pervaiz Musharraf in this crisis environment. On the other hand peace process with India was moving in a right direction. Development of trade links by road, CBMs in Kashmir, joint anti terrorism system and cultural exchange were normalizing tensions between India and Pakistan. Under these situation Pakistan would be least interested in caring out such an attack which will give India a license to wage another war with Pakistan.

Third possibility is that India herself carried out these attacks. These attacks has put India in a position to strengthen her stance on Kashmir. Muslim struggle for self recognition can easily be called as a terrorism now. Muslim minority can now easy be persecuted in the name of so called clash of civilizations. Pak-India rivalry has reached to a point where India can tactfully label Pakistan a state sponsoring terrorism in India. In short, India can gain much from this accident. But in my opinion carrying out such designs at the cost of own people is less likely in a democratic setting. So, India should be given a benefit of doubt.

Fourth possibility is that united states is behind these Mumbai attacks. Some people are of the view that there is a growing nuclear cooperation between Russia and India nowadays. It’s in media that Russia and India will ink their nuclear deal on December 5, 2008. By this nuclear deal Russia will build four nuclear reactors in India.This growing cooperation between India and Russia as well as prolong delay in third stage of Indo-US nuclear deal (which states that India will send troops to Afghanistan) is the reason which forced US agencies to carry out such attacks. This is just a possibility which is echoing in literary circles and nothing can be said for sure before investigations.

This is all blame game and nothing can be said to exactly who was responsible for these attacks before proper investigations. In my opinion militant groups from Hayderabad is the most possible reason for Mumbai terrorism and Pakistani involvement in these attacks is less likely.