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By Pankaj Mishra
Sept. 15, 2003
Soon after arriving at the site of the bomb explosions in Bombay that killed more than 50 people last month -- the sixth and most lethal in a recent series of blasts in the city La Krishna Advani, the deputy prime minister in India's Hindu nationalist government, blamed terrorists based in Pakistan. This was to be expected: the ruling Bharat Jana-ta Party routinely describes India as besieged by Muslim terrorists backed by Pakistan and based there or in the disputed valley of Kashmir, where Indian security forces have fought a Muslim insurgency for more than a decade. This time, however, Mr. Advani's accusation was swiftly contradicted by the Bombay police. The four people arrested this month in connection with the attacks were Indian Muslims, part of a new group called the Gujarat Muslim Revenge Force. They may have received logistical support from a Pakistani militant outfit with links to Al Qaeda, but they were Indian citizens.
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