Editorial — For regional peace, India and Pakistan must cooperate on terrorism
MANY THINGS about the savage terrorist attacks on hotels, restaurants and other "soft targets" in Mumbai are not fully known: the group or groups responsible; their links, if any, to Pakistan or other outside forces such as al-Qaeda. But morally, the relevant facts are perfectly clear. The assaults cost the lives of at least 145 people. The vast majority were civilians, Indian and foreign, including two visitors from Virginia and an American-born rabbi whose crime, to the terrorists, seems to have been helping Jews passing through Mumbai. Whatever its ostensible ideology, this was murder. And it is a stark reminder, if any were needed, that, even when governments are properly busy fending off a global financial crisis, they cannot neglect the threat of terrorism.