The November 2008 Mumbai attacks have shifted India's military focus away from China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) transformation and its intransigence on the two countries' outstanding border dispute back to neighbouring nuclear rival Pakistan. The three-day siege of India's financial and corporate capital by 10 gunmen, in which 164 people were killed and more than 300 injured, ended four years of incrementally improving bilateral relations. New Delhi claims the gunmen belonged to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT, or Army of the Pure) Islamist group, backed by Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate.
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