New Delhi: On a day when Pakistani Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani ratcheted up the war talk, prime minister Manmohan Singh toned it down, saying war was no option. In fact, Indian strategic experts are now coming round to the view that the Mumbai terror attacks may have had the direct sanction of the Pakistan Army, which had been losing ground after the murder of Benazir Bhutto and the election of a democratic government.
With India, the US and the world applying the diplomatic squeeze on Pakistan, the army has channelled public opinion away from the terror attacks and focused it on Indias alleged plan to attack the country. The army-terror link became explicit on Tuesday when a Taliban leader said they would fight a jihad against India if war broke out. This is exactly what the army wants - abandon the fight with the Taliban and fight India instead.
