well mumbai attacks were definetly on the same scale as 9/11 so if you believe 9/11 was an inside job you should believe that indian attack was also an inside job!
Mumbai attacks came at a time when pakistan was itself destabalized! a former PM had died a year back! the sitting government was unstable! pakistan was already being blamed of supporting terrorism!
PAKISTAN HAD NOTHING TO GAIN FROM MUMBAI ATTACKS BUT DEFINETLY HAD ALOT TO LOSE! THE ONLY ADVANTAGE COULD HAVE BEEN FOR INDIA!!!!
This is contradictory. Why would India inflict a self wound when Pakistan is weak and NOT take advantage. What advantage did India get? Lot of the politicians lost their jobs, so why would they take a risk like that....
If you want to turn your back on mountains of evidence, acceptance of complicity. Acceptance of involvement in these acts and such as Mussaraf in 2002 and deny involvement wrt Headley...its your choice.
If terror as a policy tool has been adopted by the PA and Govt because of 71 and the aftermath, then it must be said the wrong lessons were learnt.Justified or not,there were valid reasons for 71 acts and dismembering Pakistan has never been a foreign policy goal of India; notwithstanding whatever you want to say or believe about this.But the Pakistani actions have their people's support and have an overarching objective of dividing India.
This terror factory as a foreign policy tool will blow in the face of Pakistani leadership the moment the right regime comes to power in India. That process is on and should be complete in couple of years.
Ofcourse, big powers like US and China ;who want to dissect India will use Pakistan to their own gains. The problem is India will lose sleep and maybe 1% GDP growth rate each year but Pakistan is losing much more...a whole generation.
I also disagree Pakistan had a lot of lose with 26/11 and here's how -
Post 9/11, probably by 9/15 Mussharaf had to take a U turn on Taliban under pressure from Bush and his with us or against us policy.
Mush agreed only tactically and till the last day of his office played on both sides..by hiding extremists but fighting them when pressured.Peace with India and growing of civilian ties was also done by Mush to appear like a dove to India and US.But he always played on both sides and likes of LET and others flourished.In this backdrop, Headley and others plotted 26/11 as has been well documented. Just around the time of 26/11 India was close to an agreement on Kashmir with Pakistan. But the terms of that agreement are much more pliable to India than Pakistan and to ensure that this doesnt happen a terror strike is a good way to make India stop talking.
By Mid-2007, it was clear that Bush was a lameduck and ofcourse Pakistan was de-stabilised and the peace talks were going on frantically so as to ensure India (wrong perception) doesnt take advantage and closed in on these deals. But Obama's election changed things. Unfortunately, all these events were too close to each other and the strike went ahead.
Pakistan has played on both sides and has been very clever, eg Miandad getting Chinese involved in cricket is quite a clever move but Pakistani elites while being clever think others are stupid and will not see through their games.Ofcourse, patriotic Pakistanis will fall for this 10 out 10 times.