With Pak virtually trashing Mumbai attacks dossier through media leaks before submitting an official response, New Delhi accused Islamabad of trying to hide the truth.
With Pakistan virtually trashing India’s Mumbai attacks dossier through media leaks and out-of-turn statements before submitting an official response, New Delhi on Friday accused Islamabad of trying to hide the truth about the involvement of Pakistanis in the terror episode.
Fuming over what it considers to be Pakistan’s desperate moves to avoid any exposure that links its military and the Inter Services Intelligence to Lashkar-e-Taiba, India has begun to look at “other options” to expose this very link.
“We have not received any information from Pakistani authorities through a proper channel. Whatever we are hearing, like you, is through the media. This is not the way a government should respond,” external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Friday.
On Friday night, Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi officially confirmed that his country had completed a “preliminary investigation” based on the dossier. He said it would be shared with India in due course but did not say when. But in the last few days, the Pakistani media has been rubbishing the dossier quoting official sources.
Its high commissioner in London Wajid Samsul Hassan on Friday went to the extent of accusing India of having fabricated the dossier. Prime minister Yousef Gilani later said Hasan had spoken too soon but that hasn’t calmed India’s frayed nerves.
“Pakistan is speaking in many voices because it is nervous that the LeT-ISI link will be exposed to the world,” said a senior foreign ministry official who did not want to be named.
Sources said that New Delhi is preparing a list of Pakistan-based terrorists and terror groups involved in attacks in India and is planning to approach the UN Committee on Terrorism to seek a ban from the world body on them. The list will include the name of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar.
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