{"id":169268,"date":"2025-02-17T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T05:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=169268"},"modified":"2025-02-17T10:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T05:56:17","slug":"samjhauta-express-bombing-a-case-of-unpunished-terrorism-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/17\/samjhauta-express-bombing-a-case-of-unpunished-terrorism-in-india.html","title":{"rendered":"Samjhauta Express bombing: A case of unpunished terrorism in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-169269\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/express.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/express.jpg 271w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/express-220x150.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi: In what a glaring example of unpunished terrorism and systemic protection of right-wing extremists in India, the Samjhauta Express bombing on February 18, 2007 was a calculated act by RSS extremists to derail India-Pakistan peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the sinister act claimed 68 lives, mostly Pakistani civilians.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of strong evidence, Indian authorities failed to ensure justice. Key suspects like Swami Aseemanand were acquitted in 2019 due to deliberate negligence.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the involvement of Indian Military Intelligence, particularly Col. Shrikant Purohit, in protecting the perpetrators further exposed a state-sponsored terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The tragic incident remains a scarce on the face of India, which flaunts to be the world largest democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In what a glaring example of unpunished terrorism and systemic protection of right-wing extremists in India, the Samjhauta Express bombing on February 18, 2007 was a calculated act by RSS extremists to derail India-Pakistan peace efforts. According to Kashmir Media Service, the sinister act claimed 68 lives, mostly Pakistani civilians. In spite of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/express.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}