By IRNA,
New Delhi : Two of India’s strategic experts believe that those opposing a good relationship between India and Pakistan were behind the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the commercial center of India.
Commodore C. Uday Bhaskar, the former director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA), speaking to IRNA here, rejected the possibility of involvement of the Pakistani government in the Mumbai terrorist attacks and said, No doubt, government of Pakistan is not having any role in the Mumbai terror attacks but certain elements in the Pakistani establishment who do not like any improvement in the ties between Islamabad and New Delhi could have played a role in the attacks.
The Indian strategic experts, generally, believe that Pakistan’s intelligence agency (ISI) do not obey the policies of the Pakistani government on India particularly Kashmir and support the anti-India militant groups.
Realizing the fact, even the US government recently had asked the Pakistan government to sack the ISI chief.
Quoting the Indian media, Bhaskar said that the captured terrorist Ajmal has confessed his connection with the Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group in Pakistan, and this proves a connection between the Mumbai terror attacks and the militant groups in Pakistan.
Rejecting the possibility of the direct involvement of Indian militant groups in the attacks, he said that the extent of the attacks and the kind of the weapons used show that the terrorists were well-trained.
Meanwhile, terming the attacks as a blow to the peace process between India and Pakistan, Bhaskar said that no doubt, the relation between India and Pakistan would suffer for the time being given the fact the talks at the political levels are going on between the two nations.
Dr. M.S. Sansanwal of the Delhi University, also, rejected the possibility of involvement of the Pakistani government in the Mumbai terror attacks but said, the possibility of the involvement of the independent Pakistani groups in the attacks cannot be ruled out.
The growing relationship of India with the US and Israel as well as the conclusion of the nuclear deal between Washington and New Delhi could be reasons for the displeasure of the militant groups with India and their launch of terror attacks against the country.
The professor of the Foreign Policy in the Delhi University added that according to the Indian media reports, the E-mail sent to the media was originated from Pakistan and this proves the involvement of the Pakistani militant groups in the attacks.
Pakistan and Bangladesh are the main sources of terrorism against India and all the terrorist attacks on India are conducted by the militant groups in these two countries, he added.
Dr. Sansanwal, also, blamed certain Pakistani elements for the attacks and said that certain elements in Pakistan who oppose the good relationship of Pakistan with India are behind the Mumbai terror attacks.