Another "peace" attack?

Two bombs described by Indian officials as "not powerful' and "crude" still managed to kill over 65 people on an Indian train bound for Pakistan today reports the Washington Post.

India's junior Home Minister, Sriprakash Jaiswal characterized the attack as part of a "conspiracy . . . to disturb the peace process between India and Pakistan." Tomorrow Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri was scheduled to arrive in New Delhi to try and work out a deal regardng Kashmir, the Himalayan region that is claimed by both India and Pakistan and that has been a subject of contention since 1947 when the sub-continent was partitioned.

Also vying for control of the region are at least a dozen mostly Pakistani-based "militant groups" (to use the Post's term) which have been fighting in Indian Kashmir since 1989.

Why was this passenger train attacked? As the Post notes, "The train links are one of the most visible results of the peace process under way between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, and one of the easiest ways to travel across the militarized border."

Map courtesy of Wikipedia

The green areas are under Pakistani control; the orange areas are under Indian control; and the area called Aksai Chin is under Chinese control.