Interpol: Where’s the evidence?
December 23, 2008 | PakistanKaKhudaHafiz.com
In what is clearly a blow to India’s case against Pakistan, Interpol today has confirmed that India has so far not provided any real evidence to back up their allegations that the Mumbai attackers came from Pakistan.
Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble, who is in Islamabad, said its only knowledge of what happened had come from the media.
Pakistan says it also has had no firm information from Delhi, and that India has not provided ample evidence for arrest of any accused of the Mumbai attacks.
India claims Pakistani militants carried out the attacks, which left more than 170 people dead. Only one of the 10 gunmen, Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab, survived and he is in Indian custody.
On Monday India handed a letter to Pakistan it says was written by Mr Qasab, confirming he is Pakistani and asking for Islamabad’s help.
Earlier, the FBI had also rejected Indian claims that Pakistan’s Intelligence Agencies were involved in the Mumbai Attacks.
With India fast losing ground on its campaign, there is a serious possibility of its Air Force attempting to carry out ’surgical strikes’ in a desperate bid to ease the pressure on its government from right wing Hindu Nationalist groups calling for an all out war on Pakistan.
Pakistan’s Armed Forces continue to remains on a high alert to face any aggression from India.
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How about the nuclear deterrent. Both countries are fully aware of total destruction on either side.
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India's Singh Plays Down Possibility of War With Pakistan
By Rama Lakshmi
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, December 23, 2008; 2:30 PM
NEW DELHI, Dec. 23 -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tried to allay fears on Tuesday about the possibility of war with neighboring Pakistan, saying "nobody wants war." Singh's comments came amid rising calls in India for military action, and a day after the Pakistani air force conducted war training exercises with fighter jets above Pakistan's major cities.
"The issue is not war. The issue is terror and the territory in Pakistan being used to provoke, to aid and abet terrorism. Nobody wants war," Singh told reporters outside Parliament.
He said India wanted Pakistan to "dismantle the terror machine" and added that Islamabad "knows what that implies."
The two nuclear-armed neighbors have traded angry rhetoric since India accused "elements" in Pakistan of planning the three-day siege in Mumbai last month that left at least 170 people dead, including six Americans, and injured more than 230. The gunmen arrived in Mumbai by boat and attacked a restaurant, two luxury hotels, a train station and a Jewish prayer center.
India has accused the banned Pakistan-based group Lashkar-i-Taiba and demanded that Islamabad snuff out groups that fuel terror in India. Pakistan, while denying any government role in the attack, has offered to help in a joint probe and has detained some suspects. But India has rejected the steps as merely cosmetic and demanded more effective action.
Singh's comments came after India's foreign minister said on two occasions that India was keeping all its options open, implying the possibility of military action. On Tuesday, Pakistan's army chief reacted to the hard-talk emanating from India.
Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani told the Pakistani daily The News that the country's armed forces are "fully prepared to meet any eventuality, as the men are ready to sacrifice for their country." Kayani said that Pakistan would react "within minutes" of any military strike by India.
During a visit to Islamabad, Interpol chief Ronald Noble said Tuesday that Pakistan has agreed to cooperate with the global police force to find the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack. However, he said that India had not shared information about the gunmen.
"To date, India's government has not authorized Indian police agencies to enter any data related to the Mumbai attacks into Interpol database," he said at a press conference in Pakistan. The "Indian government had decided it is not yet ready to engage with the Interpol."
Pakistan's top interior ministry official, Rehman Malik, told reporters that Pakistan has received no evidence from Indian authorities about the involvement of Pakistani nationals in the assault in Mumbai. Police in Indian Kashmir said Tuesday that over the weekend they had arrested three men of Pakistani origin who they claimed were planning to drive an explosives-laden vehicle into building in India.
According to Kuldeep Khoda, the director general of police in Kashmir, the men had been asked "to launch action in our state" and "create disturbances."
'Their personal search also revealed certain incriminating documents and some suspicious identity cards," he said. He said one of the men was a Pakistani soldier.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/23/AR2008122301514_pf.html
By Rama Lakshmi
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, December 23, 2008; 2:30 PM
NEW DELHI, Dec. 23 -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tried to allay fears on Tuesday about the possibility of war with neighboring Pakistan, saying "nobody wants war." Singh's comments came amid rising calls in India for military action, and a day after the Pakistani air force conducted war training exercises with fighter jets above Pakistan's major cities.
"The issue is not war. The issue is terror and the territory in Pakistan being used to provoke, to aid and abet terrorism. Nobody wants war," Singh told reporters outside Parliament.
He said India wanted Pakistan to "dismantle the terror machine" and added that Islamabad "knows what that implies."
The two nuclear-armed neighbors have traded angry rhetoric since India accused "elements" in Pakistan of planning the three-day siege in Mumbai last month that left at least 170 people dead, including six Americans, and injured more than 230. The gunmen arrived in Mumbai by boat and attacked a restaurant, two luxury hotels, a train station and a Jewish prayer center.
India has accused the banned Pakistan-based group Lashkar-i-Taiba and demanded that Islamabad snuff out groups that fuel terror in India. Pakistan, while denying any government role in the attack, has offered to help in a joint probe and has detained some suspects. But India has rejected the steps as merely cosmetic and demanded more effective action.
Singh's comments came after India's foreign minister said on two occasions that India was keeping all its options open, implying the possibility of military action. On Tuesday, Pakistan's army chief reacted to the hard-talk emanating from India.
Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani told the Pakistani daily The News that the country's armed forces are "fully prepared to meet any eventuality, as the men are ready to sacrifice for their country." Kayani said that Pakistan would react "within minutes" of any military strike by India.
During a visit to Islamabad, Interpol chief Ronald Noble said Tuesday that Pakistan has agreed to cooperate with the global police force to find the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack. However, he said that India had not shared information about the gunmen.
"To date, India's government has not authorized Indian police agencies to enter any data related to the Mumbai attacks into Interpol database," he said at a press conference in Pakistan. The "Indian government had decided it is not yet ready to engage with the Interpol."
Pakistan's top interior ministry official, Rehman Malik, told reporters that Pakistan has received no evidence from Indian authorities about the involvement of Pakistani nationals in the assault in Mumbai. Police in Indian Kashmir said Tuesday that over the weekend they had arrested three men of Pakistani origin who they claimed were planning to drive an explosives-laden vehicle into building in India.
According to Kuldeep Khoda, the director general of police in Kashmir, the men had been asked "to launch action in our state" and "create disturbances."
'Their personal search also revealed certain incriminating documents and some suspicious identity cards," he said. He said one of the men was a Pakistani soldier.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/23/AR2008122301514_pf.html
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