Nationalists blame Pakistan for bombing in India

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Source: AP

NEW DELHI – Hindu nationalist leaders demanded Sunday that new peace talks with rival Pakistan be canceled after a bomb blast in a crowded bakery in western India killed nine people and wounded 57.

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Hindu nationalist leaders blamed the attack on Pakistan and demanded the government call off next week's peace talks, the first between the nuclear-armed neighbors since the Mumbai siege.

"India's initiative to hold peace talks with Pakistan is misconceived and adventurous," said Arun Jaitley, a top leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.

He said India shouldn't restart peace talks until Pakistan stops allowing terrorists to base themselves there and punishes those involved in the Mumbai attacks. "Terrorism and talks can't coexist," Jaitley said.


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1. Bomb Detonated in India Likely Meant for Chabad

A bomb that exploded in a crowded cafe in India was likely meant for the nearby Chabad House, Indian authorities said.

The bomb that detonated Saturday in Pune, India, killed nine people and injured 57. The bakery is located several dozen yards from the city’s Chabad house.

Pune is 125 miles southeast of Mumbai, where in November 2008 a major terrorist attack in the city at several sites simultaneously, including the Chabad house, killed 179 people, with them six Jewish victims at the Jewish center.

Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said Sunday that the Chabad house in Pune had been under surveillance by David Headley, an American of Pakistani descent in prison in Chicago for allegedly scouting out targets for the Mumbai attack.

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