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He said that "I do not know if Pakistan's reaction would be a dumper-load of explosives." Such moves by India would mean "playing with the future" of the country, especially when the entire world knew that terrorism emanated from Pakistan and the U.S. was yet to declare Pakistan a terrorist state. It was inexplicable that India should make such offers when terrorist activity in Kashmir was at its peak. So far, Pakistan had been "clandestinely sending explosives and terrorists" via sea route and now the proposal for a Mumbai-Karachi ferry service and a railway route would only facilitate the "free travel" of the underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim, between Karachi and Mumbai, he said. Referring to the 1993 serial blasts in which RDX smuggled in from Pakistan was used, Mr. Thackeray said that everything would now "become open" instead. Arms, explosives and terrorists could "arrive with visas". Given Pakistan's attitude, there was no room for any optimism that things would be any different now. The offer to play cricket with Pakistan was an "outrage". "It is an impossible offer. We will not allow it," Mr. Thackeray said. The Sena had once dug up a pitch in Mumbai to prevent a cricket match with Pakistan.
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