Yep, this is a first - the Indian government has come out and unequivocally accused Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), of direct involvement in the Mumbai terror attack. And the Indians didn't mince any words in their accusation. Let's look at the details from the article here at Breitbart:
Obviously, this is the hardest line taken by the Indian government so far with the formal government of Pakistan on the Mumbai attack and one has to wonder if this isn't going to be followed up with both a demand and an ultimatum. After all this time, one would have to think that the Indians had given up on any real form of justice in this but it seems like every week or two now, this still resurfaces and thus, I am certain that there are elements of the Indian government that are still pressuring leadership for some punishment of Pakistan.
India has for the first time directly accused Pakistan's powerful military intelligence agency -- the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) -- of involvement in last year's Mumbai attacks.
"The perpetrators planned, trained and launched their attacks from Pakistan, and the organisers were and remain clients and creations of the ISI," Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said in a speech in Paris on Thursday that was picked up by the Indian media.
In January, India handed Pakistan what it said was evidence linking "elements" in Pakistan to the November attacks on India's financial capital, in which 10 gunmen killed 165 people during a 60-hour siege.
New Delhi has blamed the attacks on the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is active in Indian-ruled Kashmir, but the Pakistan-based organisation has denied responsibility.
Obviously, this is the hardest line taken by the Indian government so far with the formal government of Pakistan on the Mumbai attack and one has to wonder if this isn't going to be followed up with both a demand and an ultimatum. After all this time, one would have to think that the Indians had given up on any real form of justice in this but it seems like every week or two now, this still resurfaces and thus, I am certain that there are elements of the Indian government that are still pressuring leadership for some punishment of Pakistan.
India says Pakistan spy agency behind Mumbai attacks
India has for the first time directly accused Pakistan's powerful military intelligence agency -- the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) -- of involvement in last year's Mumbai attacks.
"The perpetrators planned, trained and launched their attacks from Pakistan, and the organisers were and remain clients and creations of the ISI," Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said in a speech in Paris on Thursday that was picked up by the Indian media.
In January, India handed Pakistan what it said was evidence linking "elements" in Pakistan to the November attacks on India's financial capital, in which 10 gunmen killed 165 people during a 60-hour siege.
New Delhi has blamed the attacks on the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is active in Indian-ruled Kashmir, but the Pakistan-based organisation has denied responsibility.
Earlier this week Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani assured India that his government would hand over the results of its own investigation into the attacks soon.
Pakistan has confirmed that the lone surviving Mumbai gunman, now in Indian custody, is one of its citizens. But it has insisted that the attackers were "non-state actors."
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I would like to see India bloody the Paks nose (and maybe a bit more) even with the chance of nules being used.
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