"Help your brother whether he is an oppressor or is an oppressed person."
- hadith(237) Holy Q'ran.
Amid the ongoing tension between India and Pakistan. A very critical parameter is being ignored. The fact that both the countries have sprung out of the same empire, and both share a significant chunk of their history, and culture. An India-Pakistan war will not only be devastating to the region, but will be very damaging to the entire world.
Mumbai terror attacks will go down on the pages of history as one of the most degrading and most demeaning act against human dignity. Whatever may would have been the driving factor behind this, be it Jamaat-ud-Dawa's attempt to gain a global limelight, or be it Al-Qaida's attempt to divert the focus from Afganistan/Pakistan border to India/Pakistan Border. The intention cannot be greater than humanity's objective of peace, and stability. The reason for the attack cannot be greater than the will of the humanity to prosper, to seek peace, and to survive.
War is not an answer.
