My vote is for peace talk.

"This blog get’s a lot of visitors from South Asia and South Asians living in North America. My request to you is that, the only enemy here are the terrorists who are trying to derail the peace talks. There is no point in blaming people on the Indian side or the Pakistan side, but good can only come by supporting the peace talks and encouraging your people and governments to go ahead with the peace talks. We can not let this act of cowardice stall the peace talks.We can not let the enemy win, we can not let the terrorists win. It doesn’t matter if you are an imam in Pakistan reading this blog, a priest in India or a computer professional in North America, do not focus on the problem, but focus on the solution; the solution being keep the Peace talks going."

Peace talks is the solution. Agreed.

But, you are missing the point in your very naive post where you declared that only enemy is the Unnamed Terrorists:

What effects these attacks will have on the ongoing peace talks?. This incident certainly puts India at a disadvantage at the negotiating table especially in regard to the core issue of Kashmir ,which is THE key to any long term peace in the region. State sponsored terrorism is not new to the Pakistan, while turning a blind-eye is quiet for them post 911. The intelligence agencies who *may be behind this don't leave clues. These kind of attacks are a win win situation to pakistan at the negotiating table. Or, may be, the business minded Terrorists are funding themselves with such attacks by controlling the Indian stock market as was reported by Indian intelligence agencies last week. There may be other reasons for this particular attack. More may be revealed later to the public if the Indian Intelligence are half as smart as their neighbors.

I would like to hear Deepak weigh in on this discussion, so far he hasn't addressed this difficult yet important issue of bringing peace between India and Pakistan.

Thanks for sharing Vijay, keep us informed over here in the states.

Steve

"do not focus on the problem, but focus on the solution"

This was quite funny. do not focus on the problem?? Exactly. that is why those two countries are suffering since the day of Gandhi. Spoke like a politician. They may solve that problem in the 22nd century maybe.

Dear Vijay

I wonder that neither India's nor Pakistan's security efforts prevented the attack. Why didn't they institute the highest levels of security for this train, at least at this time?

Dear IV

I disagree that the attack puts India at a disavantage. India's independence, measured forcefulness in speech, and compassion are well known worldwide, and Pakistan's leaders would certainly anticipate India speaking against terrorism at this moment. In fact, the moment offers a tatical advantage to India: It almost forces Pakistan's leaders to oppose terrorism more openly.

love, Heath

Dear Vijay

"DEEWANA (Haryana): Virtually admitting a security lapse in the Samjhauta Express blasts, railway minister Lalu Prasad on Monday said there was no equipment for checking what was there inside the luggage.

"Though there are metal detectors, we don't have the equipment to check what is inside the luggage. We can't deny security lapse," he told reporters in Deewana when asked if there was any security lapse in the checking-in of Samjhauta Express passengers...

... Prasad, who visited the site of the incident around 100 km from Deewana, also said each and every luggage could not be checked as it caused inconvenience to the passengers..."

-- from http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Lalu_admits_to_lapse_in_checking_of_luggage/articleshow/1639547.cms

A little inconvenience might have found the bombs and saved the lives of 67 passengers. If tougher security procedures, including checking the bags of all passengers, was well-known, a terrorist attack might have been completely discouraged.

love, Heath

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