File photo of the Supreme Court of India. PHOTO: supremecourtofindia.nic.in
The Indian Supreme Court alleged that the Pakistani government agencies were involved in the blasts. The Pakistani government clarified that neither the government nor any agency played any role in the said attacks.
The ministry’s press statement said that Pakistan had been a victim of terrorism and was working with the United Nation (UN) to maintain peace in the region.
“Pakistan remains committed in its resolve to fighting terrorism and engaging with India in a constructive, sustained and result-oriented dialogue process,” it further stated.
The response came hours after the Indian court claimed Pakistan was involved in the attacks on Thursday.
While announcing the sentences for Yakub Meon and Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, Supreme Court judge P Sathashivam said the Memon brothers and another fugitive suspect who is said to be living in Pakistan “were archers and rest of the appellants were arrows in their hands”.
According to NDTV, the Supreme court of India criticized Pakistan for ‘aiding and aiding and abetting the acts of terrorism’.
The court further stated:
“The training received in Pakistan materialized in the unfortunate serial blasts in Bombay, India on 12th March 1993. A responsible state owes an obligation not only to another state but also to the international community as a whole. We sincerely hope that every State will strive towards the same."
The attacks on March 12, 1993, were believed to have been staged by Mumbai's Muslim-dominated underworld in retaliation for anti-Muslim violence that left more than 1,000 dead in the city a few months earlier.
Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim, the other alleged masterminds of the attacks, have been on the run since 1993. Indian investigators say they were helped by Pakistan's intelligence service, a charge denied by Islamabad.
Correction: An earlier version of the story had an incorrect image of the Supreme Court of India. The error is regretted.
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It is high time that Pakistan accepts its responsibility and take out this terrorists. They are more dangerous now for Pakistan than India. If Pakistan do not punish this blood thirsty terrorists, soon they will turn their guns inwards.
@Enlightened: Dear Enlightened, You wrote a good article, which on the face of it sounded reasonable, but a rebuttal of almost every point could be made. I have written several lengthy articles which put Pakistan in a good light, in regard to the childish Sub-continent spat, which has been ongoing for 65 years, but ET do not print them. Let us hope they print this one.
@ Foreign Leg: we know how efficient the Indian Police are at extorting confessions. The Indian police is so good at their jobs that we wonder how there is any crime in India. They don't use torture, they don't accept bribes. They even took poor Afzal Guru's computer, cleaned it up and returned it. Oh yes, they put in some pictures of ID cards by mistake and forgot to tell him.
@To my Pakistani friends I had no intention to issue rebuttal/clarifications on number of comments made on my post as I do not have the time, patience and articulation of gp65 to do so but unfortunately he is missing from this forum. Let me put it straight that 257 people died, 713 injured and property worth several crores was destroyed in 12 blasts carried out in Mumbai was not a joke as somebody has commented. The Apex court having examined several accused who took training in Pakistan remarked in its judgement ' The accused arrived in Pakistan for training and they were received by ISI operatives who took them out of the airport without observing any immigration formalities. Meaning thereby, they had a green channel entry and exit in Pakistan'. The court further observed that the confessional statement of the convicts exposed that large number of accused including the absconders were trained in Pakistan in making of RDX explosives, handling of sophisticated automatic weapons like AK-56 rifles and using hand grenades. The Apex court of India did not use any harsh or undiplomatic language simply reminded Pakistan that it being the member of UN must observe international obligations of maintaining peace and security but in this case had infringed the international law by failing to prevent terrorists attack emanating from its territory. It almost took the courts two decades and after examining hundreds of witnesses to come to this conclusion which can be rejected out rightly showing patriotism to ones own country but it would still remain the truth.
@Foreign Leg: Man try your luck in bollywood as script writer, seriously.
ET: Pls. see below. Nothing I have written is against ET guidelines. Why then wasn't it published over 12 hours ago? It is unfair if I cannot rebut a response to my post. . @confused: @Foreign Leg: He must be your neighbor? Or he must be your best friend to call you up, ask how you’re doin and then tell you his address & how he’s livin it up in Pk. . Even though there is no point refuting the above nonsensical statement, since you asked for it, I will give it to you. . 1. Yakub Memon (the person convicted with the death sentence yesterday) returned to Nepal to rendezvous with his cousin to find out whether he can return to India. On being caught, he admitted that the entire family including Tiger Memon had moved to Pakistan and they were in an ISI safehouse. 2. Subsequently, Tiger Memon's parents, brothers and wives, etc. returned to India from Pakistan. 3. Tiger Memon worked for D-Company and was a senior henchman under Dawood Ibrahim. Yakub Memon took care of the logistics of sending people for explosives training to Pakistan. 4. Indian authorities have on numerous occasions provided documentary evidence such as pictures of Dawood Ibrahim in Pakistan as well as his residential address in Karachi. 5. Dawood Ibrahim's daughter married Javed Miandad's son and the wedding was conducted in Pakistan. 6. Tiger Memon's similar details have also been provided to GoP. Tiger moved from Karachi to Dubai and setup a restaurant a few years ago but then decided to move back to Pakistan. . There is much, much more. Thus despite India providing even the residential address of Dawood Ibrahim & Tiger Memon on numerous occasions, the GoP has decided to do absolutely nothing and instead "reject" such evidence.
@Ravi: Don't comment if you don't know. I have lived in Delhi and I know that the picture is correct. Where are you from?
@Yoghurt lover:
Lol........... Credible??? India is shining? ........keep living in delusions and keep smoking whatever you are !!!
whether pakistan was involved or not, doesn't matter. The indian judiciary specially the lower courts are filled up with right wing hindu communal people and even their supreme court is just another tool for furthering their expansionist and communal designs. the hanging of shaheed maqbool bhat in 1984, the recent judicial murder of Mr. Afzal Guru, where-in justice was done to satisfy the collective conscience of society and not facts, the victim was not even provided a lawyer at trial stage; so much for india demon-cracy.
@Ehm No, i voted for him. He is the Head of a Developed State of India.
Gulam Rasool"Kuldeep sharma" New Delhi
@confused: "p.s. who cares about Indian SC?". I DO.. You trust China and Saudi Arabian justice? Give me a break.
@Mirza: Pakistan will not dare to take action against it. As they know very well Pakistan's own lie will get exposed.
@Ussama Sajid Live with it dude :)
Here's my observation :
Out of 24 comments here. About 12 are Indan and about 10 are pakistani and about 2 are neutral.
The 12+2 comments come from a country with self respect and credibility.
The 10 comments come from a country which lost all its respect and has zero credibility.
@Sobriquet: fools like you do not even read the article well... read the last line of the article now..it says Correction: An earlier version of the story had an incorrect image of the Supreme Court of India. The error is regretted
When has killing innocent women and children solved anything? If the current geopolitics is extrapolated, it is obvious that the status quo in its current form cannot be allowed to continue. Something has to be done. Maybe that "something" is already underway. I don't purport to know. What I do know is, it is time this ludicrous battle of attrition is put to an end one way or another.
@Sexton Blake: Your's and every Pakistani nay Sayers argument would be true if Pakistan ever did any investigation before denying. But wait, here is the fun part, every investigation agency , judicial system members and army in Pakistan are all member of one exclusive club of ISI. Do you expect anyone speak against their Alma mater ?
@Enlightened: You will be saying next that the US Political/Judicial system is fair and will not pass incorrect judgement on another country. However, the US bombed Iraq into the stone age by making the incorrect assumption that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, weapons that I believe the US stopped looking for about 10 years ago. I could use many examples, but I think it fair to say that India, at the top levels, tends to be somewhat biased against Pakistan, and perhaps they have got it wrong..
When Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged on 4 April 1979, Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai did not make any comment. He said it was an internal affair of Pakistan. Now Pakistan is interfering in the internal affairs of India. On the fillip side Pakistan's National Assembly has no guts to reject the US Court verdict on her Qaum Ki Ghairat and Qaum Ki Beti Dr Afia Siddiqui.
Did the learned justices of the indian supreme court forget that Indian intelligence is and has always been heavily involved in creating disturbances in Pakistan? I can quote a Times article which mentioned how RAW is pakistan-specific with a 150 million US $ budget while ISI has a budget of 50 million $ only. India should solve kashmir and sign a pact of non interference via intelligence with Pakistan and maybe then there will be genuine peace.
Unfortunately, Pakistan has reached at such a low level of credibility that the world doesn't care anymore what Pakistan agrees with and what it disagrees with.
@Ravi: You should go and see the Supreme Court building before claiming that this image is of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The Rashtrapati Bhavan dome is anthracite grey and the building is several times larger than the Supreme Court.
Just Great! Here we go again.
There was no way these blasts were carried out by a bunch of smugglers / gangsters (which is what Dawood, Memon etc were) - this required detalied knowledge of military grade explosives, IEDs and a strategic approach of where to place these IEDs. That would mean military style training - Pakistan with its history of support for Khalistani and Kashmiri terrorists was the prime suspect.
Remember, there were 6 or 7 locations strethcing across Mumbai where the blasts occured. I was a student then - saw smoke rising from the Stock Exchange blast and decided to take the bus home. Missed the Air India building blast (close to starting point of the bus) as well as the Dadar and Juhu blasts (along the bus route).
And now those monsters you created are after their own creator!
@Ehm: so you want us to extradite him and how wud that serve pakistan?
Pakistan has been as much victim of the terrorism as a suicide bomber of his self-inflected wounds.
Pakistan and suicide bombers both had a clear choice not to pursure their fatal attraction for death and destruction.
@Foreign Leg: He must be your neighbor? Or he must be your best friend to call you up, ask how you're doin and then tell you his address & how he's livin it up in Pk.
p.s. who cares about Indian SC? It's not like we're talking about the US or China or Saudi Arabia, India doesn't matter except when they destabilize Pakistan by establishing numerous consulates in Afghanistan along Pakistan's border
@ehm Mr Modi has been investigated throughly by the courts and investigative agencies and they have not found evidence against him. In fact more than 50 of Modi's policemen died trying to protect the innocent Muslim and Hindus. How many Pak policemen have died trying to protect the Hindus who are now almost extinct in Pakistan from 20% of the population to 1.5% today ?
There are no terrorists in Pakistan. It is all a big misunderstanding. The court must be confusing Pakistan with Sweden.
*United NationS, not nation...
@Enlightened: And Narender Moodi a terrorist is walking in streets of india without any fear from SC of India.
@Enlightened: You must be joking, right?
How much credibility does this rejection hold when it is a well-known fact that Dawood Ibrahim, the kingpin of the 1993 Mumbai Bomb Blasts, is living in Pakistan?
Pakistanis are not involved in hiding Osama. They were not involved in genocide in Bangladesh. They were even not involved in creation of Pakistan. :-)
Is Pakistani SC CJ going to take a suo motu action on this?
The above photo is of Rashtrapati Bhavan (President's House) of india and not of supreme court of india.... do the correction plz..
I sense trolls. Indian Trolls.
An apt observation of Pak involvement made by the Apex Court of India after examining scores of witnesses in a span of two decades should not be undermined as Indian judicial system is extremely fair and will not put false allegations on a third country without concrete evidence found during the trial.