Was Pak ISI behind Mumbai attack?

Times of India:

India has proof that the Inter Services Intelligence was involved in planning the Mumbai terror attacks and training the terrorists who killed more than 180 people during a 60-hour siege of the country's financial capital, sources said in New Delhi on Thursday. ( Watch )

The names of trainers and the places where meticulous training took place are also known to the government, the sources said.

The United States is believed to have even more evidence, some of which it has shared with India, they said.

Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, who was in Pakistan on Wednesday, is believed to have told his Pakistani interlocutors that

Washington had enough evidence to show a Pakistani hand in the attack, the sources said.

Sources here also refuse to believe that the Pakistani army did not have knowledge of the Mumbai operation given that ISI is controlled by it.

At the same time, sources do not believe that the civilian government in Pakistan is involved in the attack. In fact, one view is that the civilian government itself may be a target of the strike which may be used by the army to heighten tensions with India to return to power.

Washington has asked Pakistan to crackdown on Lashkar-e-Taiba, which now goes under the name of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, and to arrest its chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed because it has evidence of their involvement in the attack, the sources said.

The attack was planned, equipped and organised in Pakistan where the terrorists were trained and provided logistical support.

Contrary to the version that the terrorists used a hijacked Indian fishing boat to reach Mumbai after sailing from Karachi, the view here is that much more sophisticated means were used.

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I have not seen the evidence that ties the ISI to the attacks, but I wouldn't put it passed them. The civilian government in Pakistan probably needs the pressure the US is putting on it to protect it from the domestic fallout that would come from them cooperating on their own. It is clearly in Pakistan's interest to go after the terrorist, but that may not be clear to the folks in the ISI.

Comments

  1. Satya11:18 AM

    If Pakistani civilian government can not control its army and ISI then why others like India would suffer??

    US should remember that for the selfish motive of saving its own citizens they should not use diplomatic tactis to ignore others concern. It is happening again again in India as US plays an indirect role in supporting Pakistan.

    Hell to Nuclear deal, hell to US sanctions. The time has come India would not listen to you (US) real perpetrators of terrorism

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  2. Satya11:23 AM

    The whole world knows what Pakistan. It is hotbed of Islamic Extremism. But US every time gives suitable lip service only to India and next day everything changes in Pakistan. Affected democracies like India would not digest it more. US has to taste its own diplomaacy some day

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