Mumbai massacre and Pakistan

The mental shock on seeing the Mumbai massacre on the TV in my hotel room in Dubai was both abrupt and intense. I left soon thereafter as I was en route to performing the Hajj; but the thought of what future may hold for Pakistan gave rise to an uncomfortable sensation. I am now at Harvard where I have had more time to reflect and ponder over such matters.
The terrible state of things that currently surround Pakistan are patently visible to anyone who cares to realise the impact of this brutality. The dangers of indiscriminate blame are only too easy. One hopes that visionary wisdom and statesmanship will rule, but we know how hard that can be. The cold-blooded ferocity demonstrated in Mumbai is equally to be found elsewhere in the world - the West is far from immune; but the Muslims seem to be somehow exceptionally unfortunate to be the made focus of suspicion and murmur almost any time something erupts with a bang.
A most distinguished friend of mine, Geoff Pugh, whose late father had been awarded the Victoria Cross during the last Great War for doing his duty as a priest and not as soldier, wrote to me: "The tasks ahead are immense and we find our prayers are for those who have to chart their way through this minefield. We think of you in this. Although our hearts and thoughts in these past days have been very much in Mumbai, which we have lived in, know well and have many friends in, we have also thought of Pakistan and of friends such as you, as you too have suffered, and still suffer, from equally random and bitter violence."
As a lawyer my first and foremost attention must be riveted to the crime, its perpetrators and the causation. Unlike 9/11 when it was immediately disclosed who had done that unbelievable demolition of the Twin Towers, in the Mumbai tragedy it was after two weeks that we were told the names of the saboteurs. Furthermore, while there was no dispute about the identity of the perpetrators in 9/11 atrocity, in the Mumbai massacres, there is a serious controversy about the nine who were dead, as well as for the tenth that is alive; there is uncertainty about his exact name and the place where he is said to have come from.
There are also nagging questions about causation and the organisation said to have sent them. Usually such organisations, for obviously patent reasons, assert claims to have done such deeds rather than deny their connection. However, it is certain that Indian government sees it as Pakistani inspired or conspired attack