The serial blasts in Bangalore seems to be the odd man out in respect with the other blasts carried out in the recent past in one aspect. The blasts were of low intensity (carried out at precise intervals using timer devices) as opposed to the high intensity blasts. The obvious interpretation is the objective was to create chaos and panic rather than damage to life.
Terrorist attack or not?
This may be precisely why the police insisted it was “small group trying to create panic” rather than terming it a terrorist attack. But the locations & precise orchestration of the blasts which suggests careful planning is not something you did associate with a “small group trying to create panic”. Also care has been taken that the bombs are placed in secluded regions of the busy places, which creates panic with less causalities.
But why have the blasts been of very less intensity? Why have they been placed in a manner in which less causality is inflicted? Some point to India’s response to the Kabul blasts by calling off CBI Director Vijay Shankar visit to Pakistan, and calling the peace process was under stress, this they say, would have prompted the terrorists to go soft on causalities as it could push India out of the talks, which Pakistan may not want. But at the same time it perfectly fits Pakistan’s designs of keeping India bleeding by creating panic in its IT hub.
Filed under: India, Pakistan, Terrorism | Tagged: Bangalore, Bangalore Blasts, India, Kabul blasts, Pakistan, Terrorism
