"The latest development is certain to strengthen New Delhi’s case for tangible action on the part of Islamabad."
Other than asking for more money? "Heap of evidence to nail Pak lies," from the Economic Times, January 2:
NEW DELHI: Pakistan may now find it difficult to persist with protestations of innocence. For, western governments have begun confronting Islamabad with four tell-tale evidences that links Pakistan to the Mumbai terror outrage...
More specifically, Reuters reports that the FBI presented at least some of the evidence:
The master-switch of the Thuraya satellite phone that was used to communicate with the jihadi gang while they were on way to Mumbai through the sea route was located in Pakistan.
The Deccan Mujahideen e-mail claiming the responsibility for the Mumbai carnage has been traced to senior Lashkar-e-Toiba commander and the outfit’s communications chief Zarar Shah. The FBI and other agencies have confirmed that the e-mail originated from Pakistan. Zarar Shah has already confessed that he was one of the key planners of the attacks.
LeT terrorists Abu Hamza, Abu Kaza and Zarar Shah were in constant touch with the marine jihadis. Reports in the western media say that Zarar Shah has confessed that he had been in touch with the terrorists by phone as the 60-hour gunbattle raged in Mumbai.
According to investigating agencies, instructions were passed on minute-to-minute by the three from Pakistan after monitoring the Mumbai happenings on television. They were in touch with the attackers in Taj, Nariman House and Trident Oberoi.
The instructions were in Punjabi. Since they had the advantage of 24X7 TV coverage of the attack, they could even direct them to “lob the grenades” and “set the place ablaze” from their location in Pakistan. Even the news of the killing of Hemant Karkare was relayed to them, but the LeT masterminds did not have any idea that he was the chief of the Maharashtra ATS.
“You have killed the commissioner”, was one of the messages. The jihadis also had information about the operation by Marcos and NSG commandos as they were monitoring television news. They were also occasionally directed to have dates and even to take turns to sleep.
Navigation routes plotted on the global-positioning system (GPS) found on the abandoned MV Kuber fishing trawler, hijacked by the Mumbai attackers mid-sea to carry on their journey through Indian waters, revealed the planned route from Karachi to Mumbai and back again, indicating that the terrorists were hoping to take the escape route back to Pakistan.
All these are certain to make it difficult for Pakistan to claim that it was doing enough to bring the perpetrators of the attack to book. There have been efforts in the past two days even to deny that Kasab, the surviving Mumbai attacker, is a Pakistani citizen. On Zarar Shah, too, there has been no concrete action on the part of the Pakistani administration.
In the light of these evidence, the western capitals can be expected to hammer Pakistan to comply with India’s demand. The latest development is certain to strengthen New Delhi’s case for tangible action on the part of Islamabad.
Surprised, Evidence all around but no action on Pakistan. India is a lame duck basket bannana republic has become world knowledge now. The indian forgien minister says one more terror attack and they will not show restraint. All talk and no action, by now all hell must have broken loose.
@ greaticon:
What did you expect? After the British left in 1947, those parts which were under British rule were given to Nehru and Gandhi to rule over and destroy the Psyche of Hindus. The Princely States joined India in 1949, and after this the glory of countless brave princely families that fought against the Islamic invasions were slowly swept under the rug in favor of a so-called secular education.
In this so-called secular education, the Europeans were evil, the Rajputs were evil, all Rajput Princely states were evil, India was never ruled by a single king (which we know is hogwash ie, Asoka, Chandragupta and others) and last but not least The Muslims were the golden period of India.
Nehru/Gandhi further appointed three Education ministers in India, all Muslims, who took to task to remove any trace of evidence of what atrocities were committed by he Islamic Jihad.
Entire chapters are dedicated to Akbar and other islamic invaders, but no mention of our heroes like Maharana Pratap who fought Akbar and defeated the Islamic invasions.
What does this type of education policy eventually create???? Cowards, lost bumbling fools, people who have no clue what they are facing and who? No identity, no vision, no direction. A lost bunch of Indians who were once a proud people but are now nothing more than a bunch of highly educated mindless fools who are walking into a Jihad which demands their annihilation.
Look at former PM Vajpayee who travelled to Pakistan in a bus to show how the relationship improved....what a moron, right after this you know what Pakistan did? It attacked.
India has lost the respect of many throughout the world, not because there are no brave souls there to combat the Islamic Jihad, instead they have lost respect because of the lack of leadership in the government, these people are not fit to rule and yet they are voted to power. Furthermore, Indians have lost respect because of the whining idiots who still follow Gandhi's failed policies.
-Ayo Gorkhali
Gorkhali,
You are one of those lost souls that you ranted about. You talk of a 1000 years of history but no solution.
As you say, the hindi is small and whimpy, they worry about the smallest thing, Pak will always provide no comeback.
I don't know what the solution is; you can try and take out Pak, but actually that may make things worse, given that there are more muslims in India than Pak. Ghandi had a chance that comes once in a 1000 years, and ofcourse he did the "hindu" thing;
Gorkhali, a history lesson is certainly not the solution though.
Gorkhali: I remember reading a sign in a Gorkha Regimental Center: Kayar hunu bhanda, ramro marno chhu.
Too bad the Indian politicians don't know the meaning. How does it translate, BTW?
keeping low
What Gandhi did was by no stretch of imagination the 'Hindu' thing. Hinduism has existed in India from time immemorial, and the religion was defined by a whole bunch of events. Anybody who's read the epics, for starters, knows that fighting one's enemy in the cause of good and against evil is one of the central duties of Hindus. Gandhi's pacifist stances were his own invention, and had no scriptural underpinnings.
Only in the West is Gandhi conflated with Hinduism. In India, they are 2 separate things.
Hedgehogg
Gorkhali can correct me, but I think it means 'if you are a coward, expect a good beating'.