The admission that Mohammad Ajmal Amir is a Pakistani national apart, investigators here are still to trace his family.
The admission that Mohammad Ajmal Amir is a Pakistani national apart, investigators here are still to trace his family.
There are those in the intelligence set-up who say Ajmal’s family was shifted from Faridkot by Lashkar after his father’s media talk, in which he conceded that the Mumbai attacker captured alive in India was his son.
But there are also those in Faridkot village who claim Ajmal’s family was moved by Pakistani intelligence agencies. Once the family is traced, investigators say, they would be in a better position to gather information as to who masterminded the Mumbai bloodshed.
However, well-placed diplomatic sources in Islamabad allege the authorities are delaying proceeding against the actual planners of the Mumbai attack. Ajmal has provided 100% information to his Indian interrogators that has already been passed on to Pakistan in a dossier, which establishes the role of Jamaat-ud-Daawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and Lashkar-e-Taiba chief operational commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.
Ajmal’s seven-page confession to Mumbai Police, which has been handed over to Pakistan, offers chilling new details of the three-day rampage through India’s commercial capital that left 164 people, plus nine gunmen, dead.
Budget to overshoot
Pakistan has cut non-developmental expenditures of all ministries, divisions and attached departments by 20% to meet the cost of redeploying troops from the Afghan border to the India border.
Finance ministry sources in Islamabad said the cash-strapped country had to take the step to ensure funds availability in case of an emergency as the Pakistan army is in a state of mobilisation. Given the high alert and the manifold increase in mobility of forces, the sources said, the defence allocation for the fiscal would be overshot.
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