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For Mumbai police, Pak link lies in phone call, dialect |
2006-10-15 |
Mumbai Police has little hard evidence of Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai train blasts, save for details on Pakistanis it believes crossed into India to conduct operations, reports the Indian Express. An Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) dossier records an intelligence intercept of a phone call soon after Pakistani Kamal Ansari’s arrest in Bihar on July 21: “One of our men has been caught. Hope to God he doesn’t say anything.” The other “evidence” was the tell-tale Pakistani dialect of two suspects arrested in West Bengal. Additional police commissioner Jagjeet Singh, who interrogated them, told the Express: “An Indian Punjabi will say, ‘Main kar raanga, utthe jaa vanga (I will do it, I will go there), but when a Punjabi from Pakistan says the same, he will say, ‘Main kar saan, main utthe jaa saan’.” Mumbai police suspect 11 Pakistanis were involved in the blasts, but know many of them only through pseudonyms, and none of the Pakistanis questioned by the ATS have been booked in the case. |
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