Explosions across Mumbai have brought the horror of terrorism back to India's commercial capital and revived the spectre of a South Asian stand-off provoked by Pakistan-based extremists.
As graphic pictures were broadcast on television of mangled bodies strewn across roads, commentators were quick to blame militant groups with ties to Pakistan's intelligence services, particularly the army's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The claims resonated in a city regularly traumatised by rush-hour attacks. The principal suspect in Wednesday's bombings, Lashkar e-Taiba (LeT) has form in perpetrating atrocities.
Less than three years ago, it plunged vast, crowded Mumbai into a four-day siege at top hotels and central landmarks that left 168 dead.
In 2006 another fundamentalist group with Pakistani support planted seven bombs on the city's railway network, killing more than 200.
Although India has its own security failings and home grown fundamentalists could yet be held responsible, New Delhi's complaints that Pakistan has failed to control militant groups responsible for cross-border attacks will strengthen.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/8636105/Mumbai-bomb-blasts-Pakistan-braced-for-blame-game.html
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