----- Ahmedabad Blasts : Very Bad Signal Agence France-Presse . has written from Ahmadabad that Indian leaders appealed for calm Sunday as the army was called out after a wave of bombings killed 45 people in Ahmedabad, a city rocked by deadly Hindu-Muslim riots six years ago.The string of 16 bombings, which left more than 160 people injured, ripped through crowded places in the tinderbox western city — markets, buses and then hospitals struggling to treat the scores of victims.They came just one day after another wave of nine bombings in the southern high-tech capital of Bangalore left one dead and several injured — prompting the government to put the entire country on high alert. Indian television channels said a little-known Islamist group calling itself the ‘Indian Mujahedeen’ had claimed responsibility for the attacks. Bomb squads defused at least three unexploded devices in Ahmedabad on Sunday, Indian news channels reported, and police said they had also found a car laden with explosives in the diamond-polishing city of Surat. Ahmedabad was calm Sunday, with police, soldiers and paramilitary forces fanning out across the city, which is the commercial capital of Gujarat state. Joint police commissioner Ashish Bhatia told AFP a number of people had been detained after raids, but said no formal arrests had yet been made. President Pratibha Patil expressed her ‘grief and sorrow’ and also ‘appealed to the people of Ahmedabad to maintain peace and harmony.’ Prime minister Manmohan Singh also appealed for calm.The group which sent the email claim minutes before the actual explosions in Ahmedabad also warned of repeat attacks elsewhere in India, prompting major security alerts in major cities including the capital New Delhi. ‘We have deployed an additional 3,000 personnel in the city to ensure foolproof Pakistan denies backing Muslim militants, including those operating in the disputed Himalayan state of Kashmir. Earlier in the week India said the two countries’ peace process was ‘under stress,’ repeating allegations that ‘elements’ in Islamabad were behind an upsurge in militant activities, including this month’s suicide attack against its Kabul embassy.
We are also grieved at the loss of life.The scourge of terrorism of all types must be eliminated from all places and countries.This is indeed the most serious threat to social peace within each country and also threat to international peace. E-mail, as all intelligence authoritied know , may be a diversionary tactics but it is clear that a very organized group has done it.All countries should help India in finding the terrorists and fighting this terror .There should not be any blaming of others as is done nowadays rather the objective should be to unearth the evil-doers and punish them. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
