While terrorist attacks have touched off rounds of finger pointing between the Pakistani and Indian governments in the past, the Feb. 18 bombing of a Pakistan-bound train in India's western state of Haryana had no such effect. Within hours of the blast and fire that killed at least 68 people, most of them Pakistanis, on the Samjhauta (Friendship) Express, politicians from both countries had vowed that the peace process would continue. Such acts, said Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, will only "strengthen the resolve" for "peace between the two countries." Indian officials, meanwhile, sent condolences to victims' families and confirmed that a...
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