Koregaon Blasts

It's kind of  late to comment upon Koregaon blast which is old news as far as blogging cycle is concerned, but for what it's worth, here is what I think about it.

The attack appears to be hurriedly planned. There are many other locations in Pune where the damage inflicted would have been much higher (in fact we were in one such place when bakery was bombed). The reason terrorists selected bakery for attack could be either of following two.

One, their initial target was different (for example Osho Ashram, very near to bakery) but they had to change the target at the last moment due to some reason, most probably security.

Second reason however is more interesting, which is perpetrators were in hurry because they had some urgent strategic goal. The only strategic goal I can think of, is thwarting the proposed talks behind India and Pakistan. This is kind of intriguing as I have always considered talks to kabuki theater at best, however the fact that the powers that be in land of pure were desperate to thwart the talks suggests the impossibly viz. these talks might result in some result, to be precise, result not favorable to Pakistan.

And this bring to our final conclusion, which is it is possible Obama administration is working behind the scenes to force Pakistan to make concession to India.