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Does the events in Mumbai on 26/11 & more recently in Lahore on Sri Lankan cricketers on 3rd March point to something big in the making. Is a bigger attack or maybe a series of them, pending somewhere in the world, especially the US? Many would laugh at my assumption or conspiracy theory (whatever you choose to call it) but many may agree. I am not being Zaid Hamid, living in a make believe world and having a hidden agenda to subscribe to nor Amaresh Mishra, that I'll even defy logic to support my stance. I think my sanity still prevails. And I am also not saying what I am stating is right. It is just an assumption. The reason I am making this assumption is because of a few reasons that may have gone unnoticed. There were no hostages taken at all by the attackers – none in Mumbai & none in Lahore, though they had a great opportunity to do so in both cases. Some may argue that they did took hostages in Chabad House/Nariman Bhawan & in Taj, Trident/Oberoi but in reality t...

As the events unfold after Sri Lankan players were attacked in Lahore yesterday it seems very likely that another blame game is ready to be played. Some sections of Pakistani media & the establishment have started blaming India’s Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) for the attacks despite being uncanny similarity with 26/11. Though a few saner media houses have rubbished the charges & instead blamed the home-grown, ever increasing jehadi outfits. Let’s for once assume it as being done by RAW. This assumption makes RAW the agency that is in control of Pakistan & I’ll try to explain why. For nobody knew which route the players will take to the stadium except the security agencies & even that route was changed at the last moment. They even knew which one of the three buses the players were seated in. That means an insider must have leaked it or the RAW got the route changed according to its designs. There is also a police station within a few yards of where the incident h...