Mumbai attacks: Pak media cautions against blame-game

Islamabad, Nov 28 (PTI) Warning against the blame-game
amid the terror attacks in India's financial capital Mumbai,
the Pakistani media Friday said Islamabad should not be held
responsible for the carnage in India's financial hub and the
peace process should not be allowed to derail.

In editorials that condemned the attacks, the country's
leading dailies cautioned that any indulgence in the
blame-game would hamper the ongoing efforts to normalise
relations between the two countries.

"India gives Pakistan a dirty look," said a headline in
the 'Daily News', while another paper said Indian intelligence
was under fire and seeking to lay the blame elsewhere.

However, the tenor of the 'Daily Times' was moderate as
it said that both India and Pakistan faced the same threat of
terrorism and needed to work out a "cooperative strategy".

Unfortunately, it said, this is made nearly impossible by
domestic political compulsions and a desire for point scoring
among political parties.

"Ongoing investigations into some (past) terrorist
attacks that were alternatively blamed on Indian Muslims and
Pakistan have shown they were actually carried out by Hindu
terrorist networks," the paper said.

The 'Dawn' counselled that the two countries "without
apportioning blame on each other should cooperate in the
investigation to make them productive."

"Although one can understand the anger and concern which
is widely felt, one would still advice the exercise of
restraint in this hour of crisis," the paper said. "There is
need for confidence-building between the two countries." PTI