India-Pakistan Relations Post-Mumbai Terrorist Attacks [pdf], Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore, 7 January 2010
EXCERPT: ". . . when on 26 November 2008, a group of terrorists, traced to Pakistan, attacked several key places in Mumbai – the Taj and the Oberoi hotels, among other places – it seemed that a war could break out between these two nuclear weapons upstarts. Thanks to the restraint exercised by their governments as well as hectic diplomacy by the United States (US), the United Kingdom and other major players, a major disaster was averted. The obviation of open conflict did not mean that peace and normality had been restored; on the contrary its major casualty was the peace process that both sides had been claiming for quite some time that it was about to furnish a historic resolution of all outstanding disputes between the two rivals. There can be no doubt that those who planned and carried out the attacks wanted fear and hatred between India and Pakistan to deepen and even result in war. At the end of 2009, South Asia is still held hostage to the India-Pakistan confrontation."
Read the full report [pdf].
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