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Article: Things that go bump in the night. (mysterious bombing attacks in both India and Pakistan have caused the countries to place blame on each other while calling into question the real parties responsible)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 4, 1996
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DELHI AND LAHORE
MYSTERIOUS and deadly bombs keep exploding in both Pakistan and India. On April 28th, a bomb went off in a bus in a sleepy market town, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Lahore, the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab. At least 38 people were reported killed. On April 20th, an explosion in a guest house in the Indian capital killed 17 people, including several foreign tourists. The next day, another bomb went off in Modingar, on the outskirts of Delhi, killing another 15 people.
In both Pakistan and India it is common to blame any and all explosions on the old enemy on the other side of the border. Benazir Bhutto, the prime minister ...
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