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Public Anger After flushing out the militants form the heart of the Mumbai city government of India is busy to take some concrete measure to strengthen the internal and external security of the nation. Intelligence agencies are collecting the evidence to know about the source of the terror. Initial reports indicate towards the involvement of some Pakistan elements into the attack. Intelligence agencies have recovered satellite phones, garments, explosives that terrorists had brought with them and have been made in Pakistan. In the ‘flush out’ operation nine militants have been killed and one has been arrested alive. During the investigation he has revealed that he is the citizen of Punjab Province of Pakistan. Almost two hundred people have been killed in the terror attack. It has left not only India but all the world ’shocked‘. Though Indian government is hesitant but public has taken it as India’s 9/11. There is public anger against the government, militants and the country from where terrorists had got their training. There is so much anger in the public that some of the relatives of the security personal who laid their lives for the nation, refused to meet some prominent leaders. In first Incident, Gujarat CM had tried to give compensation of One crore rupees to the widow of Mumbai ATS chief Hement Karkare, which she politely refused. Similar kind of incident happened in Bangalore (Kerala) when slain NSG Commander Major Sandeep Unnikrishanan ’s father refused to meet Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan and literally shooed him away. In another incident some Muslim bodies have declined to cremate the bodies of the militants ‘on the Indian soil’.

Public and Politicians Though ‘inner self’ of Indian politicians have taken some to wake up but public of India have reacted very sharply towards the attack. People are expressing their anger by circulating SMSs through mobile phones. In some messages politicians have been referred as more dangerous than the Mumbai attackers. People are not angry only with the ruling party but also with the opposition. Assembly elections are being held in some states. Both the ruling and opposition parties have appealed the voters to vote in their favor by raising the issues related to recent militant attacks. Politicians are trying to exploit the public emotions. But this time they have failed to feel the pulse of the public. For politicians Mumbai attack is nothing more than an issue but for public it is an attack on the sovereignty of the nation.

War On Terror Though public of India wants some ‘action’ but anger is not directed towards Pakistan. There is no doubt that the militants were recruited, trained and were sent from the soil of Pakistan. Some ISI elements may be responsible for the act but whole of the Pakistan can not be held responsible for the ‘attack’. It was not only a well planned terrorist attack on India only to kill people but it also has some ‘higher objectives’. Security analysts have expressed that such kind of terrorist attack can not be carried out by some ordinary militants. Involvement of Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taeba, ISI and Dawood Ibrahim can not denied. It might have taken months to plan and carry out the attack. It was the biggest militant attack on a sovereign nation after 9/11 and so its objects were. In recent years Pakistan, after Afghanistan, has emerged as the epicenter of terrorism. International forces are fighting a war against the Taliban supported Al-Qaeda terrorists hiding in the border area of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistan government is also supporting the war and had moved more than 100,000 soldiers from its eastern borders to the tribal area to support the US led war on terror.

Objective For some months US and Pakistan military had intensified their war against the Taliban militants hiding in the tribal areas. They were under tremendous pressure because of the presence of the Pakistani military in the area. Peace deals between Pak military and the tribals had not worked amid international pressure. In such circumstances Pakistani military’s exit from the area could save them from the defeat and it was possible only because of increased hostilities between India and Pakistan. And Mumbai terrorist attack has served their objective. It is the first time in India that militants killed everyone who came in their way. Whether it were rag-pickers or foreign tourists they killed everyone. It shows that their intention was to raise public anger and to create a war like situation between India and Pakistan.