It was perhaps inevitable that even before the dust settled on the horrific attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team, the Pakistanis began the blame game—while government officials alluded to a ‘foreign hand’ (how many times have we heard that before?), TV channels in the country went flat out and accused RAW of masterminding the attack. It’s time for the country to get real and clean the dirt from their own doorstep before looking over the fence at the neighbour. Unfortunately, Islamabad’s policy of providing sanctuary to terrorist groups over the decades has now rebounded on itself. Will thinking minds in the country wake up and smell the coffee and act? Otherwise, the Talibanisation of the country will be complete. The implications of that for India are almost too horrific to contemplate.