Would you believe that to find such hands you need to look all the way back to the U.S. - via Pakistan?

[...] Growth of Islamic terrorism within India has been slow but apparently it is gathering strength. This has to be analysed. After the Partition of India, Muslim communalism slowed down. First, there was a sense of achievement that a Muslim homeland has been established. Second was a sense of fear that without leadership there could be a Hindu backlash that could be devastating. Third was a sense of guilt of dividing India. Nehru's secularism saved them from fear, but the Muslims kept their heads down, stayed away from communalism and took refuge in the Congress to mutual satisfaction. Now Islamic communalism is raising its ugly head again and this is a disturbing development. And for this we have not only to blame Pakistan but the United States as well. It was the United States, in its determination to oust the Soviet influence in Afghanistan that was the first not only to actively encourage Islamic communalism but the jehadists as well, without for a moment giving thought to the likely consequences once its objective was achieved.

And we have evidence of that in a study conducted by one of Pakistan's foremost investigative journalists, Amir Mir, a former editor of the Weekly Independent and how bureau chief of Gulf News in Lahore, entitled The True Face Of Jehadis: Inside Pakistan's Network of Terror. According to Mir - and he is not saying something new - after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the new agenda for thousands of Pakistani militants became the 'liberation' of Indian administered Jammu & Kashmir and that 'by the end of 1989 most of the Pakistan-based jehadi groups and veterans of the Afghan War were joining the jehad in Kashmir'.

By 1992 the Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was operating 13 permanent, 18 temporary and eight joint military training camps for the Kashmiri youth and by the beginning of 1993 an estimated 20,000 young Kashmiris had been trained and armed by Pakistan to fight the Indian forces in J & K.

ISI has been subsidising the Lashkar-e-Toiba in its nefarious anti-Indian activities right in India. And the United States has been doing nothing. General Musharraf has been playing a dangerous game. On the one hand he has been trying to mollify the United States by getting second and third rank jehadists arrested while, on the other, he has been quietly encouraging these very people to stir up trouble in India. As Mir himself writes: 'Pakistan's relationship with radical Islamic terrorism remains dangerously ambiguous. Historically, military leaders, including General Musharraf (have) openly used the Taliban and terrorists groups in Kashmir to advance Pakistan's strategic objectives'. And India is the victim. Liberal Muslims in India maintain a discreet silence. Either they are afraid to speak out openly against the traitors in their midst or they tacitly accept their aims and objectives. The secular media keeps attacking Hindu 'fundamentalists' as being responsible for Islamic terrorism. The Congress-led UPA government seems paralysed and helpless. And the more the media keeps criticising Hindu 'fundamentalists', the RSS, the VHP and Narendra Modi, the more free do Islamic terrorists feel justified in indulging in constant violence, claiming that they have merely taken recourse to violence in self-protection. What was the self-protection they were seeking in attacking the RSS headquarters in Nagpur? With the secular English media's thoughtless support, Islamic terrorism is gaining ground and the media itself may one day find itself at the end of the Islamic stick. But what is disturbing is the total paralysis of the UPA government which has been reduced to condemning violence as a standard procedure. Today the target is the RSS headquarters. Tomorrow it will be the Army Headquarters. The Parliament has already had a taste of Islamic terrorism. When will the UPA government wake up and dare to tell both Washington and Islamabad that there is a limit to its patience? Let it be known: behind the Lashkar-e-Toiba's attacks is the hand of Pakistan. And solidly behind Pakistan is the might of the United States. But in the end it is let to Muslims leaders themselves in India to contain the terrorists in their midst. That is their special responsibility.

In "India's prime minister vows to defeat terrorists" we find yet another link to Pakistan.