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New Delhi:
Even as the Mumbai serial blasts left some political parties
pointing fingers at Pakistan, a group of people from both sides of
the border will be joining hands at the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi
in the national capital Saturday to promote peace.
Organised by civil society groups from India and Pakistan, nearly
200 people will form a human chain to promote solidarity and peace
and condemn the blasts in Mumbai.
"We the citizens of India and Pakistan strongly condemn the
inhuman and dastardly serial blasts in Mumbai on 13th July 2011 in
which 21 innocent people were killed and over 140 injured," a
statement from the organisers said.
"The basic motive for this meet would be to promote communal
harmony and to show solidarity towards those killed and injured in
the attack," Faisal Khan, member of National Alliance of People's
Movement (NAPM), one of the organisers of the human chain told
IANS.
"It is to show those terrorists who are the culprits of the blast
that we have not lost our hopes yet," said Khan.
"It is clear that these blasts are a well orchestrated heinous
conspiracy to derail the resumption of the dialogue and peace
process between India and Pakistan that was stalled following the
terrorist attack in Mumbai in 2008," he added.
According to NAPM member Shahdab Bashad, nearly 15 people from
Pakistan are already in India for the human chain, while more are
expected to come.
"So far a delegation of 15 people has arrived from Pakistan and we
expect more to come tomorrow. The aim of this meet is to propagate
peace, and to give tribute to the victims," Bashad told IANS.
Fingers have been raised at Pakistan after serial blasts at three
places in Mumbai left several dead and injured.
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