Anyone who thinks a white man killing Muslims in New Zealand will be avenged by killing brown/black Christians in Sri Lanka needs to cut down his visits to NDTV like tabloids.
Attack of Muslims in NZ has been made as an open bid by simpletons.
These attacks in Sri Lanka are strategic strikes. Kindly get it into your heads.
It did cross my mind. So, I'll speculate here.
China is undertaking a large scale infrastructure projects in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka's Hambantota Port it hopes to create arrival to Dubai/Hong Kong port.
These developments might take away trade from the Gulf states, especially business in Dubai and the Saudi Arabia's deep-water ports and might seriously effect the long-term post-oil strategy of the Gulf Arabs.
Saudi Arabia is heading off this challenge by joining in the project - investing billions in Pakistan .I ,also , see talk of proposed big Qatari investments in Sri Lanka.
These act of terrorism might be a warning to the Sri Lankans not to cut out the Gulf Arabs from the lucrative projects in Sri Lanka. The threat of course is a low level Muslim insurgency in Sri Lanka ,with Chinese investments going south and China pulling out of Sri Lanka.
Of course ,behind the Gulf States is America. It wants to reduce Chinese influence in the region and has form ,over decades, for secretly supporting Islamist irregulars to achieve its aims.
A reduction of Chinese power in the region would also be supported by India,of course. Still it's difficult to see how India might be involved in this atrocity in Sri Lanka It is not a coherent policy for India to use fanatic Islamists to further tis own strategic aims ,given its own vast Muslim population and a long-running Muslim insurgency in Kashmir. Besides,I doubt that the Indian intelligence agency, RAW , has the contacts or capability to put such an operation into action.