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The terrorists know fully well that India is an easy and soft target. Till now we had the foreign hand triggering blasts, with a few active sympathisers. But of late, we have full-fledged terrorist organisations that are active.

It is time the politicians stop condemning such attacks or blaming it on ISI. Even if ISI is behind this, what are we doing to preempt terrorist activity. We have hardly any intelligence to stall surprises. Add to it the state-centre spat. The blame game continues for a few days with the Home Minister announcing that the state government (which controls the state police) was forewarned. And the nothing is done.