India blames Pakistan for temple massacre
India’s deputy prime minister today blamed Pakistan for a massacre at a Hindu temple that killed 33 people.
Deputy Prime Minister Lal K Advani referred to a September 12 speech that Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf made to the United Nations, when he referred to the killings of Muslims earlier this year in India’s western Gujarat state.
Nearly 1,000 Muslims were killed by rioting Hindu mobs in more than three months of violence that the Gujarat state government was accused of abetting.
“Our enemy went to the United Nations and spoke about Gujarat,” Advani told reporters as he visited the site of the Hindu temple attacked yesterday in Gandhinagar, the Gujarat state capital.
“From that, it appears they had been planning for some time and this attack has been executed to implement their designs.”
There was no immediate comment from Pakistan.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack and the two dead gunmen have not been identified.
