Calls for calm following Mumbai attacks

The deadly Mumbai attacks were timed to push nuclear-armed India and Pakistan back to the brink of war, say South Asian experts. "It happened at a time when a new civilian government in Pakistan was not just reaching out to India, it was undertaking some very meaningful steps," Samina Ahmed, South Asia project director for the International Crisis Group told Reuters.  Zia Mian, Director of the Project on Peace and Security in South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, warned in a video interview of a return to the tensions that gripped the region following the 2001 terrorist attack on the Indian parliament. "There was a very sustained and dangerous standoff between the two countries with both sides threatening the use of nuclear weapons. We don't want to go there again so the Indian leadership needs to think of diplomatic ways of dealing with this, ways that involve cooperation with Pakistan, not the threat of force."