India Reach

With elections over, the voting process for the world’s largest elections will begin. India, also the world’s largest democracy, will count approximately 430 million votes in order to figure out the winners of the contest. Manmohan Singh, the current prime minister of the country, hopes to become the first incumbent to win re-election in over 40 years. It will be interesting to see how things unfold, but it will certainly be worth the wait as the country’s future lies in the hands of these winners. Stay tuned for more news on the elections as results and analysis come out over the next few days.

India was happy to learn that the Pakistani government finally admitted that some of the scheming of the Mumbai attacks did happen on their soil, but the country is still looking for help from its neighbor. Indian officials are disappointed with what seems to be a lack of effort on the part of the Pakistani government in order to fight terrorism. Pakistan has started to become a little bit active in the fight by holding a small group of people who it believes were behind part of the attacks, but India is still looking for more assistance. Specifically, the government wants Pakistan to put more pressure on Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terror group who many believe was behind the attacks. The Indian government has asked Pakistan to shut down the group and to turn over the members that are believed to be guilty.