India To Step Up War On Terrorism After 42 killed in Hyderabad Terror Bomb Blast

42 people have been killed with many more injured in Hyderabad after to bombs were set off in a terrorism attack.One bomb blew up at a restaurant in the Kothi area of Hyderabad while the other rocked an open-air auditorium in the Lumbini Park area. Police were able to defused a third bomb, before it was detinated.

The Indain city of Hyderabad has a population 6.5 million, with a large number of Muslim residents. A bomb at a mosque on May 18 killed 11 people when it exploded during Friday afternoon prayers.

Tensions between India’s majority Hindus and its Muslim minority often flare into violence and are mirrored by the rivalry between India and neighboring Pakistan, which were both ruled by Britain until independence in August 1947.

Home Minister Shivraj Patil said “India will fight to eliminate terrorism”

“We are not cowed down,” Patil said in a statement late yesterday, according to state-run broadcaster Doordarshan. The government will work to ensure that terrorism “is reduced and eliminated ultimately.”

Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy said “The Aug. 25 attacks in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state, may be the work of terrorists from Pakistan or Bangladesh”

An almost two-decade-old insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state, has left at least 50,000 people dead. India accuses Pakistan of aiding separatists in the region, a charge Pakistan denies.

Will the conflict between India and Pakistan ever be truly over?

What steps could be taken to ease tension between Hindu’s and Muslim’s in the region?

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