In an English Daily, the Reuters have given a disjointed account where an effort is made to fabricate a story to fix the blame of the attack of November 26 in the financial capital of Mumbai, on a Pakistan militant Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi who was declared a terrorist by the US. This is from an Indian Security Officer on December 4, 2008. The initial source is the "lone survivor gunman" who is under interrogation in India. Whenever a crisis of this nature visits India, the blame goes up invariably against Pakistan in the very first official communiqu, as a proof. India has plenty of Muslims in its jails to be used as fodder. The media hastened to pass on the news and pressed it vehemently to allure the world to buy it. Faithfully, the Indians follow the old proverb: "Give a dog a bad name and hang him." Way back India blamed Pakistan for attack on its Parliament on December 13, 2001 wherein only five miserable-looking men who could hardly hold the weapon in their hands were shown being driven in a white car into the Indian Parliament building (in a video film), who were shot down by the waiting sentries/guards immediately on stepping out; and the great country named India cried wolf that India was attacked by Pakistan and moved its grand army on the Pak borders. Similarly, it blamed Pakistan in 2002 when in Gujarat (India) more than a thousand people were killed. The first official blame was awarded to Pakistan as the normal drill. The Muslims students of India were named afterwards. Reference was due to continued frustrations as the aftermath of December 1992 destruction of Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on the false plea that the Masjid was constructed on the Temple of Ram Janam Bhumi. On July 11, 2006 the most glamorous city of Mumbai was shaken by seven explosions and the finger was raised, true to the custom, towards Pakistan but it was withdrawn due to lack of sufficient evidence, albeit it was followed by intermittent pointations towards Islamabad. The unfortunate incident of Samjhota Express killing hundreds of Muslims was also exploded into a big issue involving Pakistan and its ISI but now India has taken a serving Hindu lieutenant colonel as the main criminal. However, the latest episode of the Mumbai carnage has started in the same style as its predecessors did. Colossal targets were attacked in Mumbai - the financial gateway of India since centuries. Shekhar Gupta editor-in-chief of the Indian Express has given his point of view saying that "domestic critics have castigated India as a soft state that has neither the spine nor the skills to fight threats to its people or to its very existence." The Newsweek of December 8, 2008 wrote: "Initial response of the local authorities was slow, haphazard and incomplete. Government of India is dysfunctional...India has a political problem with its Muslims; They are under-represented at every economic, political and social level....They face a Hindu nationalist movement etc." The number of people that India's list contained rose from 20 to 40 in a week's time. The acquisition of a few men living in the past in Pakistan is no big task. India has many Pakistani citizens in its jails. They have been kept to be used on certain occasions like the one on November 26 or when to pressurise Pakistan in bilateral clashes. I am surprised to note that eleven men left the shores of Pakistan to attack the monumental city of Mumbai and were able to keep the entire Indian nation in a suspended animation for 60 hours. Who could digest it I am also surprised that US, a long time ally of ours, has again backed out to believe a cock and bull story, fabricated by India just to cover their own indigenous weakness to face internal reaction. It is wrong to assume that Pakistan was involved in the Mumbai carnage. It is also fallacious to conclude that the terrorists named by India were found physically doing the killing and destroying Mumbai in any way. If one individual or a few foolhardy desperadoes plan a suicidal attack and that also on a distant and formidable target without backing of their government, the latter cannot be blamed. The writer is a retired brigadier