NEW DELHI: Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram called on Pakistan on Friday to acknowledge that an arrested suspect in the 2008 Mumbai attacks had helped coordinate the assault from a command post in Karachi.
Sayed Zabiuddin, an Indian-born member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, was detained at Delhi international airport on June 21 when he arrived from the Middle East.
Zabiuddin "had found a very safe haven in Pakistan," Chidambaram told reporters.
"Pakistan should admit that (he) did go to Pakistan, that he was part of the group which prepared Kasab and nine others, that (he) was in the control room among one of the handlers and masterminds of the attack.
"Just as we admit facts, Pakistan should also admit facts," the minister said.
Indian police say Zabiuddin, who also goes under the names Abu Hamza and Abu Jundal, has confessed to being a key handler for the 10 militants who attacked India's financial capital in 2008, killing 166 people.
According to police, he admitted being present in the "control room" in Karachi from where the attack was monitored and coordinated.
Pakistan has asked India to share information on Zabiuddin and urged New Delhi to refrain from blaming Islamabad.
"India should supply details... enabling us to take action," Pakistan's advisor on interior affairs, Rehman Malik, said Wednesday.
"Let us end the blame game... We have to fight terrorism together," Malik added.
Pakistan has indicted seven people for their alleged role in the Mumbai attacks but their trial, which began in 2009, has been beset by delays.
The United States has offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the conviction of Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed who lives openly in Pakistan and is accused of masterminding the attacks.
Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the attack, is currently on death row in a Mumbai prison.
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@Zeta: "will these indians ever stop whining and moaning. its tiring to see them rant day in and day out"
Please replace the word Indians by Pakistanis and the subject from 26/11 terror attacks to KAshmir and you will find 100% agreement.
@Zeta:
"will these indians ever stop whining and moaning. its tiring to see them rant day in and day out"
I am sure you will whine, moan and rant day in an day out if the the Indians train and send armed terrorists to Lahore, karachi, Islamabad etc, to bomb trains, attack temples, butcher people with AK47's in the cities, hit busy bazaars etc. with the goal of massacring innocent people.
@S.Ibraheem: How about showing a single piece on media and not just talking about it ??? Is common man in Pakistan smart enough to know which one is Indian radio set and which one is Pakistanis ? Just putting a label "Made in India" does not make it an Indian origin. China has been selling prescription drugs in Africa with "Made in India" label for years, something which WTO itself exposed. You guys have to come way far beyond this petty conspiracy theories.
@Confused: How about this. Give me list of evidences which you will recognize. And we will colllect them. because DNA samples. Voice samples. confessions and statements are not eligible in Pakistan's court.
will these indians ever stop whining and moaning. its tiring to see them rant day in and day out
1-"NEW DELHI: Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram called on Pakistan on Friday to acknowledge that an arrested suspect in the 2008 Mumbai attacks had helped coordinate the assault from a command post in Karachi" Please Indian leaders leave this hypocritical attitude because on one hand you are showing keen interest in stable,strong,permanent and long-term friendship and on other hand you are playing old blame game and 2-"The United States has offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the conviction of Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed who lives openly in Pakistan and is accused of masterminding the attacks" and as far as your THIS statement is concerned then who stopped you come to Pakistan and arrest him if you have so much more bravery and courage.He did not hide himself any where in Pakistan and he is roaming openly and freely in Pakistan and his all schedules are planned and every knows about his plans very well.So come on and arrest him and get reward of $10m from USA whereas you couldn't provide any solid evidences till now against Hafiz Saeed.
@S.Ibraheem: "yeah im pretty sure the ones here are partying or vacationing. Spies are used for sabotage "
No. I am reproducing the dictionary definition of the word SPy. The word sabotage is not included. You just think that is the job of an intelligence agency because that is what your agencies do.
spy n. pl. spies 1. An agent employed by a state to obtain secret information, especially of a military nature, concerning its potential or actual enemies. 2. One employed by a company to obtain confidential information about its competitors. 3. One who secretly keeps watch on another or others. 4. An act of spying.
@ayesha_khan: yeah im pretty sure the ones here are partying or vacationing. Spies are used for sabotage ,thats what RA&W is doing in Balochistan isnt it ? Werent they indian manufactured radio sets and munitions that were recovered after Rahe-rast ? Listen to what youre saying ?There are spies in both countries ,but only the pakistani spies harm indian interests. Grow up Ayesha ,the world doesnt work that way.Indians and Pakistanis have been at each others throats since '47 ,both countries harm each otheres interests covertly. Thats why they say "taali ek haath se nai bajti".
@YeaRight!: That is totally different argument if at all India was supporting such elements. Far bigger issue is supporting Kashmiri militants and what India can do to extract the damage over the last decade.If the same logic you mentioned is applied, what should India do to get even. The consequences will be bad as the tipping point is reached. Be careful what you ask for you will get it with multiplied force. US is not India to wait as you will see ruefully very soon.This reminds me of situation in 1971. Yeahveryright! right?
The Indien home secretary need a doctor according to me, maybe a psychologist!! We all have heared the case about Surjeet sing or what ever. So please Indian home secretary. Before you are sweeping in front of our door first start with your own door. Just take a look what your army are doing in Kashmir and what they have don. Dear India military if you really are strong then why are you seeking help from United states? USA has said that they won't to help India, and underlined how important it is to finde a solution between the countryes. We are talking about the Kashmir conflict. If we take a digression then you are also supporting terrorist.
@logic_needed: here is the logic which u faied to understand:if indian nationals involved in the attacks did not help then this would not have been possible.for planning u need info and that was provided by some insider.without insiders connivance such an attack is not possible(ur interior minister has himself admitted that insiders were involved)
pakistan should press india on sajhota express tragedy
Amusing to see the Pakistanis jump on the 'own admission' angle - surely you aren't that naive to understand there could be many possible reasons for Surjeet making such a statement? Examples - Threat of Sarabjeet and other detained Indians in Pak jails being tortured if he doesn't say so when he lands in India (having suffered himself, I'm sure he would want to do what he can to make it a little better for them) strongly comes to mind amongst other things. Of course no matter what goes wrong in Pakistan, India will always 'have a hand' in it - dig deeper and you'll all probably find Mossad and CIA too? Deluded, hypocritical and totally unreasonable is what you all are - when was that a good combination? Dig your heads out - when these terrorists you support for their murders of innocents in India turn on you, you'll probably scream from the rooftops about "where was our government when the whole world was telling them this?"
@ammar: "mumbai attack was an inside job by some indians.then what india is complaining about.it should bring its own house in order." Your government admitted that Kasab was pakistani, the conspiracy was hatched on Pakistani soil by LeT commander Zaki-Ul-Rehman Lakhvi and 5 other LeT members. Aur kya chahiye tuzhe? How can this be inside job? LeT-JuD ka head quarter kya India mein hain?
when will this cold war become to an end. I think the real mastermind of this war is America.
@Kashmiri: "India has lost all it’s credibility "
Such statement is always coming out from Pakistani journalists and people like u all the time. Reality is UN banned JuD on India's credibility, even your government banned JuD. When SRK was interrogated or APJ Abdul Kalam is not given due protocol by US security staff, India's makes US government them apologize. On other hand, NATO kills 24 pakistani soldiers and no one apologizes for it. There is a saying in Marathi about such claims. "Kawalyacha shapane gaayee marat nahit"
“Just as we admit facts, Pakistan should also admit facts,”.....yeah i just read a fact before for your ministry's top civil servent. Instead of singing do-more song follow a proper legal course or please shut-up. we are fed-up from this song
Funny sentence, ain't it? Blockquote
Blockquote> “Just as we admit facts, Pakistan should also admit facts,” the minister said.Blockquote
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Then admit that Surjeet was one of your failed spies! ;)
@Kashmiri: Kashmir is a non-issue for quite some time now. Don't you realize that? You seem to be stuck like a broken record on Kashmir. Please grow up! Recongnize that the world has moved far away from that UN resolution taken 50 years ago. Nobody really cares for it now. You seem to hurting a lot on the Kashmir issue, but for God's sake realize that Indian diplomacy has successfully negotiated that bend and no world power cares for all these rhetorics anymore. Move on man, move on.
@S.Ibraheem: Check this link.It sould answer your question on India role in Balochistan https://aacounterterror.wordpress.com/section-1-part-2/
@Yash: The proof ? The innumerable radio sets ,LMG's ,munitions and gear of indian origin recovered during Rahe-Raast against the TTP and similarly from BLA during the last 3 years. Brahhmdagh Bugti himself accepted the fact year when he said ,"We take help from the indians and ,well take help from israel and even from satan if we have to ,for liberation" This was widely quoted in the Pakistani media. Grow up , the world isnt black and white as your media shows it to be. Every nation supports insurgents ,saboteurs and non-state actors for its national interest and Pakistan and india are no exceptions.
@Truth Teller: The world isnt conspiring against us ,some countries hostile to us since independence are. There is no "guilty" or "inncoent" in international politics. But blaming Pakistan for terrorism would not be exacrly fair .This is how modern conflicts are fought ,covertly ,under the table. If Pakistan supported LeT ,KCF and the Kashmiri Mujahideen ,india is no saint either, they being responsible for everything from TTP to BLA and there is evidence that supports these claims. Surjeet Singh released yesterday accepted the fact he was spying for RAW. My point is Pakistan is not isolated in aiding covert non-state actors ,almost every nation today is involved in covert and proxy wars. Why point the finger at only Pakistan ? Seems like international law governs by the phrase "jo pakra gaya woh chor ".
@to all pakistanis asking about india's support to terrorists from afghanistan
WHERE IS THE PROOF??
For whatever reason, majority of my comments are being blocked for past severel days. However, I am grateful to ET that my last comment in this section was published. It's very important that readers hear both sides of the story and get as many facts as possible and make their own decisions based on all the facts that are known.
@Muhammad: Do even know what an intelligence officer does at all? A spy, at least a good one or the ones that watched OBL's compound studied the targets.
James bond os fictional my friend Muhammad.
Why should any of us believe India after they claimed Lahore traders were terrorists who crossed into India?
India should stop hiring Bollywood scriptwriters and actually DO investigations. Then again, how else will they be able to diverge attention away from Kashmiri protests in occupied Kashmir and 3 days of curfew?
Silly indians...
mumbai attack was an inside job by some indians.then what india is complaining about.it should bring its own house in order.
The Indian Home minister said "Taking a dig at Interior Minister of Pakistan Rehman Malik's recent statement Jundal was an Indian, he said, "I agree with Rehman Malik that Abu Jundal is an Indian perhaps he was radicalised in India. I admit that.
"Equally, Pakistan should admit that Abu Jundal did go to Pakistan, that Abu Jundal was part of the group which trained and prepared Kasab and nine others that Abu Jundal was in the control room and one of the masterminds and handlers of the attack.
"Just as we admit the facts Pakistan too should admit the facts."
Home Secretary R K Singh added that Pakistan should also admit that they have given a passport to Abu Jundal, that they gave two identity cards to Abu Jundal and that they should also admit the fact that they claimed that he was a Pakistani.
So the most damning fact is that Pakistan tried to block his extradition to India, by claiming he was a Pakistani citizen, based on the passport Pakistan has provided him. India had to provide blood samples of his relatives to the country that extradited him, to establish by DNA matching that he indeed was Indian.
@ayesha_khan:
Actually, India CAN'T because your intelligence agencies are beyond incompetent. Apparently you can't stop a guy in a rubber boat from sailing into your largest city do you honestly expect you can pull anything off in Pakistan? Doubt it...most of the trouble in Pakistan is clearly American/CIA involvement. Plus this latest so called accusation is only being done by India to diverge attention away from the Kashmir situation at the moment, nothing more.
I don't know what else will happen. But I know for sure that Hafiz Saeed's days are numbered. But it is a surprise he got away with this for so long.
This is all an attempt by India to secure votes and diverge attention away from the situation in occupied Kashmir, nothing more. Nobody is taking India seriously, especially after that Lahore Traders fiasco where pictures were stolen off of Facebook and claimed that 3 terrorists had crossed into India - they ended up being traders in Lahore.
India has lost all it's credibility - it's just attempting to diverge attention away from Kashmir that's all.
@Pakistani: "These statements are just to cover up the statements given by the recently released indian who admitted to be a SPY send by indians….. …..
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HE was a spy in 1980. HE was arrested and completed a 30 years life imprisonment sentence and was released - not on clemency but dyue to completion of his sentence. Of course India and Pakistan would have spies in each other's countries. All countries have that. But India does not use that for creating terror in Pakistan - that's the difference.
@nikarish: OK so now we need to classify what spying was "good" and what was "bad"? The point is, nothing is proved for Pakistan's involvement in Mumbai tragedy. India is just working on "Keep lying so much that it may seem a truth". This is not how it works. Present evidence, take them to the International Court for Justice and prove Pakistan's involvement. Mere media bashing does not make someone guilty of any crime.
As for Surjeet, he ACCEPTED that he was sent by Indian Government Agency (RAW) to spy in Pakistan and he said that in India. Pakistan did not force him to issue this statement. Stop complaining if your own hands are dirty with the same crimes!
@nikarish: And what do you suppose spies do in other countries? Conduct welfare parties? He would have done it if he had the chance. Infact he was doing something that was against the whole Pakistan population secretly and it must have been really dangerous considering his sentence.
@123: Did he being a spy massacre over 200 people? - No.
@Pragmatist I doubt you can do much considering 2014 is nearing and considering how the events shaping up in Afghanistan dont look so conducive to your future stay. Take your advice and be pragmatic!
And yet Home Minister P Chidambaram refuses to believe the Indian spies own admission but is trying to convey some secret confession from an Indian national caught in Saudi Arabia. So who's the one in denial?
If this Sayed Zabiuddin was in "control room" in Karachi, please tell us location of this control room. How hard can it be to look up an address in Karachi to check details? Why is India withholding this information?
What about Surjeet's statement about him being the Indian spy? State sponsored terrorism?
Suck it up and work for better relations. Both the countries are involved is such operations against each other.
Time will tell. Since KSA has deported him to India on a Pakistani passport, they know the facts. All the Muslim countries will listen to KSA except one, the perpetrator. This case will end at the United Nations.
@Pragmatist: I am glad somebody accepted about India's support of terrorism from Afghanistan into Pakistan. Your post says it all!
I keep hearing Indian administration asking for Pakistan to do more, and Pakistan every time ask Indians to provide evidences, in response Indians once again ask for "do more".. Can't you admit you guys lack evidences.
These statements are just to cover up the statements given by the recently released indian who admitted to be a SPY send by indians..... .....
@YeaRight!: India is just not doing enough in that area. As a taxpayer I wouldn't mind paying extra to my government for doing more on that front.
What about terrorists you support through Afghanistan?
exactly what american needed at this point, indians are playing in there hand but will pay the price sooner or later....
We are too busy sticking up our nose to and sorting out the US. Get in line. Despite how economically, politically and security wise unstable Pakistan is, all that the US has managed to do is threaten us with nothing more than words even though we have ignored the US over the NATO supplies for upto 7 mths. Everyone knows about your consul posts in Afghan close to Pak border, so we will even ignore your requests unless you stop sending terrorists over from Afghanistan to attack our troops across the border.
We see no evil, hear no evil & talk no evil! We only believe in conspiracies theories against us since we are the most innocent & whole world is conspiring against us.