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After years of relative invisibility, the dispute has returned to the world's agenda. U.S. and Indian officials believe that Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group formed in Muzaffarabad, planned the Nov. 26 terrorist strike on Mumbai. The attack left 171 people dead and many Indians baying for revenge against the terrorists and their patrons; New Delhi says Pakistan actively supports and encourages groups like Lashkar. Although technically banned in Pakistan, Lashkar is thought to be working under the aegis of its charitable wing and is at least tolerated by Islamabad...
...want to impose war, but we are fully prepared in case war is imposed on us.' SHAH MEHMOOD QURESHI, Pakistan's Foreign Minister, refusing to transfer suspects in the Mumbai terrorist attacks to Indian authorities...
...first blood was spilled at 9:30pm. An hour later, the world realized that Mumbai was under a coordinated terrorist attack that was threatening to lay siege to India’s financial capital. As a Pakistani, I watched in horror as the all-to-familiar images of carnage streamed over the television. I was transported back to September 20, when a suicide bomber at Islamabad’s Marriott hotel blew himself up, claiming the lives of 53 people, including two Americans and the Czech ambassador. The crying child in Mumbai who had lost his parents wrenched my heart...
...currently. Ironically, both countries were struck by local sectarian violence in the past few days, as bombs took several dozen lives in the Pakistani cities of Swat, Peshawar and Karachi, and in the Indian state of Assam. The two nations have much in common: they face domestic and international terrorists, separatist movements, and are both under pressure by the international community to play a mature and stable role in South Asia. Rather than letting non-state terrorist actors command our future, we must work together to productively combat these threats...
...before the raid, TIME spoke with Muhammad Yahya Muhahid, the JuD's secretary of information, who defended Hafiz Saeed, saying he is merely a religious scholar and cleric, denying his role in any of the terrorist acts. "Our organization has again and again made it public that it has no relations with the Lashkar-e-Toiba," Muhahid said. "Hafiz Saeed does not head the Lashkar-e-Toiba. The Jama't-ud-Da'awa does not consider any activity, carried out by any person, group or state, in any place, anywhere in the world, in which unarmed civilians and public places...