http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100714/wl_nm/us_india_pakistan
Um…so now what? Does this mean war?
Haven’t they been supplying and supporting the Taliban for years now, in addition to training al Qaida?
On second thought, are you asking about a potential India-Pakistan war? Because don’t those two countries have much deeper grievances with each other already?
I was speaking of an India-Pakistan war, yes.
And they certainly have deep grievances with one another over Kashmir. But if it turns out Pakistan had a direct hand in the Mumbai attack (or if untrue, but India concludes that they did), then Mumbai could be considered an act of war.
Meh, people overemphasize what can be considered an “act of war”. If two countries (or at least one of the two) want to go to war, they’ll come up with some “act of war” that the other country perpetrated, even if they have to bend over backwards to manufacture it, if they don’t want to go to war they’ll ignore all sorts of affronts and “acts of war” committed by the other side.
The Mumbai attacks were almost two years ago, if India wanted to start shit with Pakistan they would’ve done it two years ago. If they want to start a war now, they’ll make a big deal out of some other minor provacation, probably in Kashmir, and start rolling out the tanks.
But neither country seems to have much to gain from a war, especially since such an act would piss off the US and risk nuclear retaliation from the other side, so I suspect they’ll just keep growling at each other over the border.
ETA: also, this isn’t really a new development, India’s began blaming Pakistani Intelligence for the attacks almost immediately.
Perhaps everyone in India knows that Pakistan was responsible, but this is the first time someone has come out directly and said that they were responsible, AFAIK. Why the blunt language now?
Pakistans beef with India is based upon an erroneous belief that Muslims were somehow better warriors than Hindus.
The result of this bigotry across 50 or so years is that Pakistan has encroached upon Indian territory, not just in Kashmir and has been demonstrably responsible for supporting muslim terrorists in India.
That Pakistani attitude took one severe beating especially in '71 but just about in every theatre of activity, from military through to economics to simple law and order and the inability to oversee their own agencies.
There is no doubt that the Mumbai attack was ordered and controlled from within Pakistan, and that inability of the Pakistan leadership to oversee its own agencies means that as far as the Indian population are concerned this gives lots of credence to the view that some sort of official organisation within Pakistan is directly involved, though probably not sanctioned by the leadership.
India probably regards Pakistan as being just one step away from being a failed state, and probably deos not want to push it over into complete disorder, which would then pretty much extremist control right onto its own borders.
Pakistan has nukes there’s nothing India can do. This is why other nations want nukes. 
OK that’s a bit oversimplified but you get the idea.
Usually an intel agency is subordinate to the executive branch, depending on how the govt is set up.
From what i understand about the ISI, they pretty much listen politely to the minister responsible and then pat him on the head a couple of times and declare that adults are talking, run along.
There is only going to be a war if India wants a war. Other wise this is simply business as usual.
declan