Below is the quote from Sameer Patil
Sameer Patil, a fellow of national security studies at Gateway House, a Mumbai-based think tank, believes it was aimed at undermining the latest Indo-Pakistan peace overtures.
“This seems to be an attempt to derail the India-Pakistan talks announced with much fanfare at Ufa and test Indian political leadership’s resolve ,” Patil told BenarNews, referring to a recent meeting between Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, which took place during a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Ufa, Russia.
In his view, the incident bore the imprint of LeT, which has carried out similar attacks in many parts of India, and has been blamed for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed 166 people.