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| Indian PM: "no-one can make India kneel - bombers will never win" |
| 2006-07-12 |
| Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has vowed that "no-one can make India kneel", a day after a series of train bombings in Mumbai killed 200 people. In a TV address, Mr Singh said those affected by the rush hour attacks had responded with "courage and humanism". "I urge each one of you to remain calm," the prime minister said. "Do not be provoked by rumours. Do not let anyone divide us. Our strength lies in our unity." Mr Singh commended the work of police, firefighters and medics and said his country would not be cowed. "No-one can come in the path of our progress," he said. "The wheels of our economy will move on. "India will continue to walk tall, and with confidence." Maharashtra deputy chief minister RR Patil told the state assembly the death toll had risen overnight, with 200 bodies now pulled from the wreckage. But on Wednesday morning, the commuter trains, which carry six million people to work every day, were up and running again and crowded as usual with passengers. "I will go on the train today again. I am not afraid of death," said Prashant Singh, a software engineer who was on the train that was bombed at Bandra station. While the front pages of local newspapers carried stories detailing the terrible carnage, inside the headlines emphasised Mumbai's "invincible" spirit. Correspondents also report long lines of Mumbai's minority Muslims queuing to donate blood to some of the 714 wounded in the blasts. Meanwhile India's stock market confounded predictions, rising three percentage points on the morning after the bombings. But tensions became apparent on Wednesday, when a spokesman for the Indian foreign ministry accused Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri of an "appalling" attempt to link the bombings to the failure to resolve the dispute over Kashmir. Spokesman Navtej Sarna also urged Pakistan to "dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism" on territory under its control. Pakistan's foreign ministry later rejected the accusations in a statement, saying Mr Kasuri's remarks had been misreported and denying he had drawn a link between the bombings and the Kashmir dispute. It insisted Pakistan was "in the forefront of international efforts to fight [the] menace" of terrorism. |
| Posted by:john |
| #5 ixnay skid, on capping on our best allies there.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-07-12 22:49 |
| #4 "India will continue to walk tall, and with confidence." Yeah, 5'4" |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2006-07-12 22:39 |
| #3 The best bet would be to do to the Islamists what the British did to the Thughee. Exterminate them to a man. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-12 22:33 |
| #2 The devil is in the details, PM Singh. Always in the details. The rest is column filler. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-07-12 21:28 |
| #1 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has vowed that "no-one can make India kneel", a day after a series of train bombings in Mumbai killed 200 people. Okay. That's a good start. Now what is to be done? |
| Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-07-12 16:20 |