State police are the weak link

It is A measure of the distance we have traveled in these matters that the 'P' word was absent from most comments on the bomb blasts in Pune on Wednesday night. There was a time when, almost, by reflex, every blast was attributed to Pakistan. It is sobering to acknowledge that most thinking people now accept that there is a home-grown element to the terror attacks, even if they are guided and controlled by shadowy leaders working out of Pakistan and the Persian Gulf.

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