Apocalyptic Vision of Global Terrorism

A series of explosions rocked Delhi on Saturday evening, killing at least 65 people and leaving scores injured some of them critically. Most of those injured or killed in the explosions were ordinary people out shopping in the festival season.

Just when the entire country was getting ready to soak in the holiday spirit and enjoy Diwali, along comes another attempt to make the country shake with a possible terror attack on crowded markets and a DTC bus in Delhi. This is terror tactic at its best-hit innocent people where it hurts the most to get others to sit up and take notice. Hence the carefully planned attacks--on a bus, in a busy market. But India and Delhi has been through worse and this can only harden the people's resolve to stay together and repulse all attempts to make them cower.

Of course the proximity to Eid and Diwali seems significant - most probably so that the group behind this could inflict the most amount of injuries and garner more publicity. They wished to strike whilst their target’s guard was down.

The other seemingly obvious clue as to the timing of the bombs are the current unprecedented peace talks between India and Pakistan. We can only hope these aren’t derailed by this unfortunate tragedy. One of the talks’ main objectives was to discuss and agree upon a policy of opening up the Line of Control (LoC) to facilitate relief efforts in the aftermath of the Kashmir earthquake.