India-Pakistan relations: my fact, your fact

Some Indians and some Pakistanis are ready to believe the worst of each other. Most of them are right-wing zealots on either side, only too willing to accept the worst conspiracy theory about the other. So, when the Times of India ran a story, quoting R.V.S. Mani, a junior Indian interior ministry official, allegedly “quoting” Satish Verma, a police official, that the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 were orchestrated by Delhi, some Pakistanis were more than willing to buy the story.