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Lashkar, Pakistan and India’s dilemma - Exclusive
The Mumbai attack is the worst terrorist attack anywhere in the world, next only to 9/11. It has happened in a country which, like Sri Lanka, is one of the world's worst victims of terrorism. Nearly 200 people are dead and double that number, injured.
Mumbai terror: Wages of sins of administrative incompetence
In most cities of South Asia, hidden beneath the grime and neglect of extreme poverty, there exists a little Somalia waiting to burst out and infect the body politic. This netherworld, patrolled and nourished by criminals who operate a vast black-market economy, has bred, in Mumbai, a community that has utter contempt for the state, because it knows that its survival depends on corrupting the police. Like underground magma, that underworld has now burst into the streets of Mumbai.
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