The most damning evidence against Pakistan is the fact that the Taliban aren't trying to take responsibility. As the spokesman says, they would have been proud to take responsibility if they had done it.
(Begin quote) The Taliban has carried out a wave of suicide attacks across the country in the past seven years, but said it did not carry out the embassy attack.
Zabihullah Mujahed, a group spokesman, told the AFP news agency that the Taliban would have been proud to claim responsibility for the attack but they had not been involved.
"We wish we had carried out this attack ... since India has been the enemy of the Islamic emirate," he said.
"They send secret military experts to Afghanistan and they train (the) Afghan army.
"Had we carried out the attack, we would have claimed responsibility for it with pride since we have good reasons for it." (End quote)
I'm part Afghan, Pakistan is a terrorist state and more of a threat to the Muslim world than Iran will ever be.
Iran is a Shia state, and its foreign policy is centered not in the volatile South Asian region, but in the Middle East, where most of the world's Shia outside of Iran reside.
Iran is more concerned with raising its status as an undisputed regional power than being home base for worldwide Islamic extremism.
Extremism has always been the undoing of Muslim temporal power, from the Umayyids in Spain, to the Ottomans in Turkey, to the Mughals in India.
This new cycle of extremism is different because of advances in technology in terms of transportation and communication.
The Islam of contemporary Pakistan is suffering from a cultural schizophrenia. Pakistan is trying to be an "Arab" state by denouncing its pre-Islamic Brahmanic-Hindu past.
Islam's initial arrival in India occurred in the Sindh and Punjab, where Arab traders engaged in trade with Hindu principalities in the 8th century until the rise of the Mughals. Turks and Afghans on an annual basis would engage in raids commencing in the 12th century.
Pakistan's culture and religious identity are more appropriately a hybrid mix of pre-Islamic Brahmanic-Hindu with Perso-Turkic influences.
Pakistan's central government has little control over the military, which has served as an autonomous arm separate from the legislative-judicial branches of government.
The irony is that Afghanistan loves India, and hates Pakistan.
Most Muslims surrounding the country of Pakistan, do not care for this country from Iranians to Indian Muslims.
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