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| Pak Offers to Aid India in Terror Investigation | |
| 2008-12-03 | |
Pakistan on Tuesday offered to set up a joint inquiry into last week's terror attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai and said it would cooperate with India as it investigates the three-day siege of the country's financial capital.
The attacks by a band of 10 gunmen killed 174 and injured nearly 300. Qureshi delivered his remarks as members of Pakistan's National Assembly held a special session in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad to discuss the country's response to the Mumbai assaults. Indian officials have pinned responsibility for the attacks on Pakistan-based elements of Lashkar-i-Taiba, a militant group linked to several previous terrorist attacks in India. The sole gunman to be taken alive, they say, has admitted that Lashkar was behind the terrorist rampage across the city. In Mumbai on Tuesday, police commissioner Hassan Ghafoor provided new details about the elaborate attack and the men thought to be behind it. They left from Karachi via ship, he said, hijacked a fishing trawler near international waters to carry them near the Indian coast, then used rubber boats to complete the trip. They arrived with five timed bombs, two of which were placed in taxis -- a tactic to create confusion and a sign of their sophistication. He said the investigation so far has produced no evidence that the group had "immediate, local support," or that any of its members had visited Mumbai beforehand to gather information or surveil the attack sites. However, Ghafoor said members of the group "were trained by ex-army officers, some for a year, some for more than a year." The training took place in Pakistan, Ghafoor said, though he did not say specifically that former Pakistani officers were involved. "It was a suicide attack," Ghafoor said. "There was no hope, no intention, of staying alive." Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's minister of information, said that the country's top intelligence official, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, would brief a parliamentary committee meeting about possible steps Pakistan might take amid rising tension between the two countries. "We must try to dampen down the discourse of conflict and work for peace in the region," Rehman said. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 It is a joke that Pakistan is offering to aid India in terror investigation. There has been clear evidence that terrorists trained and funded in Pakistan are behind this horrific attack. And this is not new. Pakistan has been the global centre for terrorism for over two decades and India has been one of the major sufferers. Indeed, Pakistan has itself become a victim more recently, but then it was inevitable. What is much more serious fact to consider with regards to Pakistan's offer to help in investigation is that Pak Govt is itself incapable of doing anything concrete to influence the evil ISI LeT and Al Qaeda operatives should proof be found, and should they have the willingness to act. (and they probably have little willingness given their own troubles). Pakistan must change its ways of thinking and dealing with politics. Pak needs to be jolted into realizing that it is out of sync with rest of the world which believes in democracy, liberal values and peace. India needs to act against these terrorists and hit them at their source. Pak Govt as it is incapable of helping india, should in the minimum not protest these acts since it is itself a victim of terror. however, knowing pak they will suddenly declare that such attacks by india are attack on pak govt. it is essentially a case of do nothing on their part, since it suits them. but it does not suit india, and does not suit the civilised world. sorry, Pakistan, you have to shape up, ACT. or the events will run ahead of you. |
| Posted by: Spanky Glavilet2816 2008-12-03 06:33 |