Delhi explosion, Islamabad bombing put India and Pakistan on edge

Rare back-to-back bombings in the capitals of two nuclear-armed neighbors are threatening to send India and Pakistan to the brink of conflict for the second time this year, as tensions also soar between Pakistan and Afghanistan

Rare back-to-back bombings in the capitals of two nuclear-armed neighbors are threatening to send India and Pakistan to the brink of conflict for the second time this year, as tensions also soar between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

India is describing the car explosion that struck Delhi on Monday, killing at least eight people and injuring 20 others, as a “terror incident.” Authorities say they are investigating the explosion under an anti-terrorism law and considering “all possibilities.”

“The country has witnessed a heinous terror incident, perpetrated by anti-national forces,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet said in a resolution on Wednesday.

The investigation must be “pursued with the utmost urgency and professionalism so that the perpetrators, their collaborators, and their sponsors are identified and brought to justice without delay,” it added.

Family members mourning a victim of the explosion in Delhi.AFP via Getty ImagesA day after the explosion at a busy intersection near Delhi’s iconic Red Fort, a suicide bombing outside a district court on the outskirts of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, killed at least 12 people and injured 27 others on Tuesday.