Terrorists Know How to Play Politics

Who said terrorists are not political strategists. Indeed, they are such stirrers. The quote below encapsulates one possible motive behind Mumbai terror attacks:

Provoking India would not only realign the interests of the Pakistani military and the Islamists, it would threaten U.S. efforts to reorient the Pakistani military towards domestic counterinsurgency, and to broker a deeper rapprochement with India—a development U.S. analysts believe is key to resolving the conflict in Afghanistan.