Top Pak sleuth vindicates India’s stand, wants country to come clean on 26/11

Barely three days after the two countries agreed to re-engage at Ufa, Pakistan had asked for “more evidence and information” from India on the Mumbai attack case and asserted that talks cannot take place without Kashmir being on the agenda. Now the disclosure from the Pakistan cop would come handy for India to push forth its point.

In deeply embarrassing disclosures for Pakistan, its chief investigator of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack has stated that the mayhem was planned and launched from this country and that the operation was directed from an ops room in Karachi. Tariq Khosa, a top police officer who was made Director General of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) weeks after the 2008 Mumbai attack that left 166 people dead, has written a revealing article in Dawn newspaper giving graphic details of the plot and its investigation, thereby confirming what India has been saying for long.

Though New Delhi is yet to officially react to the article, sources in MEA said its stand was vindicated. “We have always insisted that the 2008 terror attack is planned, financed and carried out by people from Pakistan. Also, it is our view that 99 <g data-gr-id="21">per cent</g> of the evidence in the Mumbai case is in Pakistan,” government sources said.

Pakistani prosecutors had enough evidence to nail perpetrators of the deadly attacks and if they had revealed it, the outcome of the Mumbai trial case would have been different, sources said.

Khosa in his article has demanded that Pakistan’s state security apparatus should ensure that the perpetrators and masterminds of the “ghastly terror attacks” are brought to justice. Khosa said dilatory tactics by the defendants, frequent change of trial judges and assassination of the case prosecutor as well as retracting from original testimony by some key witnesses have been serious setbacks for the prosecutors.