—Daily Times

• For his part, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has vowed to trace and punish the culprits. However, given the complexity of the situation, it would be far too early to name possible perpetrators at this stage, as the Indian police have started doing. Their charges yesterday that the banned terrorist outfits Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad were behind the firebombing are so premature they would appear to be a knee-jerk reaction even if they were accurate, and there is no way of being sure they are... Of course, such charges, even if they are incorrect, are not harmful in themselves. But as has happened in the past, they can degenerate into allegations against the other country. This must be avoided at all cost.

—The News