India-Pakistan relations have caught fire again with
the Pulwama suicide bombing of February 14. It has overtaken every other issue
on the media. Public outrage has been fuelled especially by Pakistan’s
worse-than-usual wittering on the killing of 42 Central Reserve Police Force
personnel, as well as 20-year-old Adil Ahmad Dar, who drove the
explosive-filled vehicle into the convoy.
The bombing is claimed by the India-baiting Jaish-e-Mohammed
of Maulana Masood Azhar, which named Dar a
