Urdu dailies condemn Mumbai blasts, term it grossly inhuman

LUCKNOW: Wednesday’s triple blasts in Mumbai have evoked sharp reactions from the Urdu newspapers, with leading Urdu dailies including Inquilab, Munsif, Sahafat, Aag, Avadhnama and Rashtriya Sahara prominently carrying the incident.
Bombay-based Urdu daily Inquilab in its editorial has written that enemies of peace have once again targeted the economical capital of the country.Defining Bombay as the place for all Indians, who come to the city for employment and accept this land as their own mother land, the newspaper has also targeted the inefficient security system. Its editorial says that after Bombay attacks in 2008, NIA was constituted on pattern of CIA from which a best security system was expected, but the blasts ended all hopes.
Quoting the Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, Ahmad Bukhari, Inquilab wrote, “The Shahi Imam has raised an objection on the statement of government agencies for naming so called Muslim organisations responsible for the blasts without any investigation. Simply taking the name of any organisation is misguiding the nation. Giving the example of the blasts of Mecca Masjid, Samjhauta Express and Dargaah Ajmer in which the so called Muslim organisations were named, but after detailed investigation, the perpetrators were found to be someone else.
Urdu daily Munsif published from Hyderabad carried Pakistan’s condemnation of Bombay blasts in its news items.
Munsif, quoting Pakistan foreign office spokesperson wrote Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the bomb blasts in India’s financial hub.
Lucknow-based Urdu daily Sahafat in its editorial writes, “The Mumbai serial blasts have spread deep sorrow and anger all over the country, even as the wounds of 2008 attacks had not completely healed. This is an act against humanity and unpardonable.”
Targeting the intelligence agencies, Sahafat writes, “The main failure of the intelligence is that it is still unsuccessful in getting a single clue of terrorist organisations like the Indian Mujahedeen or Lashkar-e-Toiba’s involvement in the blasts.” It also carried the statement of union home minister P Chidambaram in which he has stated that at the moment no organisation can be sighted as responsible for the blasts and intelligence agencies were unaware about such possible incidents.
Urdu daily Rashtriya Sahara, Mumbai edition, on its front page has carried the story of Raj Thackeray alleging the north Indians and people of other states are responsible for the blasts and terrorist activities in Mumbai.
The newspaper quoted Thackeray saying, “Such blasts will continue till we ban the entry of people of other states in Mumbai.” Thackeray demanded an immediate ban on entry of those belonging to other states coming to Mumbai. Two other Urdu dailies Aag and Avadhnama published from Lucknow in their editorials have expressed deep sorrow and anger over the Mumbai blasts, and termed the act as grossly inhuman.