The Times Square Bomber was a son of a member of the Pakistani Military.

US citizen, Daniel Pearl (Omar Sheikh) was killed by a terrorist who had coordinated and worked with the ISI.

http://www.slate.com/id/2200134/?from=rss
"We were all warned of this many years ago. When the Clinton administration sent cruise missiles into Afghanistan in reprisal for the attacks on our embassies in East Africa, the missiles missed Osama Bin Ladin but did, if you remember, manage to kill two officers of the ISI. It wasn't asked loudly enough: What were these men doing in an al-Qaida camp in the first place?"

Is the US at war with Pakistan?

When two countries have WMD, their special forces and intelligence agencies can get away with a lot of crap. Look at what us and the Soviets did to eachother. There is a huge leap between trying to gradually undermine the enemy (like what Pakistan was trying to do here) and starting a true "war" with them.

Mr. Ricks,

Wish there was an affirmative answer to the question you pose. Sadly the answer is NO! Bharat(India) is a pushover. Every Tom,Dick & Harry can come & kill/ravage/plunder. There were Moghuls,Britons, Pakistanis. And guess who is next? Chinese? Cant wait! Many of Bharat's reading elite(NRI's, left-liberals,radical India Muslims) will call deshdaaz a Hindutva type but no one would dare reject the bitter fact just mentioned above. WMD or no-WMD, Pakistan will NEVER adopt policy of 'live-n-let-live' for suicidal thinking is part of DNA of the people of that land. Pakistan is a menace,a Jr. dragon fed by Sr. dragon. Sooner India contains, better for her economy, her present people and her future generations. Only if timid,vision-less and center-left leaning junk empty heads that rule my motherland understood this. Sigh:(

Deshdaaz,proud assertive Bharatiya nationalist.

Certainly New Delhi isn't pleased that, without a doubt previously ISI supported Lakshar-e-Taiba carried-out the attack in Bombay, however Tyrtaios' prediction is that India won't take military action over this incident due to American persuasion (possible slackening U.S. opposition to Israeli drone sales?).

However, having drank water out of a buffalo hoof print and been happy to get it, my mind is always on water. I predict that Pakistan and India may very well clash militarily over India's building higher than necessary dams over the Indus, and several other rivers which will surely lower water flow into Pakistan and deplete agriculture output dramatically?

We aren't at war with Pakistan. India isn't at war with Pakistan. The Pakistani Army/ISI is at war with both us and India. It completely mystifies me why we choose to ignore this. Our gov and intel agencies MUST KNOW this to be true and yet they pretend it isn't. We cannot prevail in Afghanistan unless we deal with the fact and we can't deal with it until we stop pretending it isn't.

If we do not prevail in Afghanistan, I wonder what the Indians will do. I fear they will not put up with it and the consequences for the Pakistanis may be severe.

I do admire the short term cleverness of the Pak Army/ISI though. They have contrived a situation whereby we partly finance their efforts against us. But then again their short term clever may come at the price of long term stupid.

Well if you want a technical answer, then India and Pakistan are not at war. The Home Secretary may believe that Pakistan did in fact finance, facilitate, and execute the Mumbai attack, but his opinion doesn't really count. He's nothing but a meager member of the Prime Minister's cabinet...it's basically the equivalent of the Attorney General saying that Saudi Arabia was part of the September 11 attacks. The declaration has no merit.

But if you want to get realistic, then this statement only confirms what people in both nations have believed for over five/six decades. India and Pakistan have basically been at war with each other since the establishment of the Pakistani states. The Indian and Pakistani armed forces have been pointing their guns and artillery for ever; both came to the brink of a nuclear snafu in 1998; and every deployment by Indian soldiers is met with a redeployment by Pakistani soldiers. If this isn't a state of war- albeit without actual shooting and bombing- then they certainly are close.

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Great article explains why they won't go to war, written in a tongue in cheek way but there are some good points

http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-called-it-indians-and-pakis-too-faggy-for-war/

Yes, India is victim of low intensity warfare by Pakistan since inception. When Taifawalas attacked Kashmir, Pakistani Govt denied it. When Paki troops raped and killed Bangladeshi,s Paki govt denied it. When Paki troops ivaded Kargil, its Govt denied it. But these were just open conflaragations.

Real war is deep low intensity war that Gen Zia gave name of Operation Topaz, to bleed India with htousand cuts. By exporting terrorists slow and steady, provide then arms and cover fire and then deny any links.

India's fault it its tendancy to claim Moral high ground and not retaliating in Kind. Till India do that, it will suffer. Else, just see what working with Muktibahini achieved!

Even though India’s Home Secretary said that 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks were managed by Pakistani ISI from start to finish, India and Pakistan are NOT at war because India’s meek and naïve Sonia-Singh government decided long time ago to buckle under US pressure and restart this façade of PEACE dialogue with Pakistan under a barrel of gun.

That is why Indian government officials from Manmohan Singh down are repeating US mantras like ‘bridge the deficit of trust’ first used by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates to justify Pakistan’s terror connections.

That is why instead of cutting off diplomatic relations with Pakistan after Indian Home Secretary’s well-proven finger pointing towards Pakistani government’s master-minding of Mumbai terror attacks in November, 2008, India’s foreign minister Krishna visits Islamabad on the same day that an Indian Army Major is killed in a gunfight in Kashmir with Pakistan-aided infiltrators and the day after India’s Home Secretary had made a statement quoted by Thomas Ricks.

India is always ready to turn the other cheek under the ’banana’ leadership of Manmohan Singh who is a sucker for flattery. Indians have nobody to blame but themselves for having elected and reelected such a gutless DEMOCRATIC government.

2.0 million soldiers standing on their respective borders ready to rain death on the other just eight years ago.
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War between India and Pakistan remains a mainstay of their background relationships.
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This despite repeated diplomatic entreaties, from both each nation and the global powers.
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This won't happen until the issue of Kashmir is settled. And even then there are Pakistani concerns about India's encroachment into Afghanistan (which Pakistan considers its own personal backyard).
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But here, at least for India, containment is likely preferable, allowing the Country to focus on improving its own economy and infrastructure.

Looks like Pakistan is at war with India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/ISI-paid-Rs25L-to-LeT-to-buy-boat-for-26/11-attack-Headley/articleshow/6177389.cms