ABSTRACT
Much water has flown under the Mithi River since the 2008 shocking Mumbai terror strikes that shook India's collective conscience and promised a groundswell of change in the country's response to terrorist attack. The Mumbai attack was a painful example of a defunct state police apparatus that was unable to face a group of hardened foreign terrorists. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), an organization created after the Mumbai terror attacks, registered a case at a specially designated NIA Court in New Delhi on 11 November 2009 to prove the larger angle of the Mumbai conspiracy and to nail the accused from foreign soil. India invokes the Mumbai attack as a footnote at every India–Pakistan meet, with the explicit intention to put Pakistan on the back foot. The Mumbai attack became a thorn in Indo-Pak diplomatic relations. India's generous gesture to Pakistan failed to break the ice and the stalemate continues.
