Pak says it replied to Mumbai dossier, India is waiting
New Delhi/Islamabad (IANS): Pakistan’s ISI agency has “given its feedback” to India about the Mumbai attacks, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said but New Delhi Saturday maintained it had not received any response on the Mumbai terrorist attack dossier it handed over six days ago.
Gilani’s remarks Friday came shortly before US vice-president-elect Joe Biden arrived in Islamabad for talks with the Pakistani leadership on the tensions with India in the wake of the carnage in Mumbai, Aaj TV reported.
“India has given 52 pages (dossier) to the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and our ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) has given its feedback and information sharing. That has been passed on to India,” Gilani told reporters.
The prime minister said Pakistan and the US’ CIA had had a good working relationship in the past, adding: “If some other information is needed, we are ready for cooperation”.
However, India’s Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma said the government had not received any reply from Pakistan on the dossier.
“I will only comment after receiving the reply,” Sharma told reporters in New Delhi when asked whether the government had received any response to the dossier linking Pakistan-based elements to the Nov 26 Mumbai carnage.
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Here is the package compiled by Indian intelligence describing the specifics of the attack.
Details of macabre conversations of the gunmen who rampaged through Mumbai for three days have been revealed in the Indian government’s dossier against Pakistan, which has appeared on the internet.
The dossier, which was put online by Indian newspapers, had been the central plank of New Delhi’s diplomatic offensive against Islamabad, where it claims the 10 terrorists were trained, equipped and dispatched.
It charts the careful planning and blunders made by the gunmen. It has pictures of grenades, guns, pickles, tissue paper and a Mountain Dew bottle that were all made in Pakistan.
India has said the bloody mayhem, which left more than 170 dead, was directed by senior leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant group.
Most eye-catching are the grisly exchanges between handlers in Pakistan and the gunmen in the Taj Mahal hotel. “We have three foreigners, including women,” the gunman said into the phone. The response was simple: “Kill them.” Gunshots rang out inside the Mumbai hotel, followed by cheering that could be heard on the tape.
The handlers told a team of gunmen who had seized a Jewish family to shoot hostages if necessary. “If you are still threatened, then don’t saddle yourself with the burden of the hostages. Immediately kill them,” the speaker said. The gunmen replied: “Yes, we shall do accordingly, God willing.” Six Jewish people were killed, including a rabbi and his wife.
The instructions expose the casual murderous intent of the attackers. “Keep your phone switched on,” a handler said in the midst of the siege, “so that we can hear the gunfire”.
It is clear those directing the attacks were following the minute-by-minute accounts on television and used the information to switch strategies, warn of incoming Indian attacks and to grab publicity. One gunmen in the Oberoi hotel is told: “Everything is being recorded by the media. Inflict the maximum damage. Keep fighting. Don’t be taken alive.”
The suicide squad were contacted from a so-called virtual number, which the Indian dossier states was 12012531824. This was generated by a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service based in the United States and paid for by a Javaid Iqbal, who gave a Pakistani passport as proof of identity.
The recordings reveal the attack lasted far longer than the commanders had anticipated. The handlers told the gunmen on 27 November, 12 hours after the assault had begun, that “the operation has to be concluded tomorrow morning”. But it was 36 more hours before it finished.
Last night news reports in Pakistan said the government had for the first time accepted that the lone surviving gunman, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, is a Pakistani citizen.
The Indian external affairs ministry raised the stakes by saying it wanted Islamabad to accept that all 10 gunmen were Pakistani nationals before it could consider a “joint investigation”.
India has said it wants Pakistan to hand over “conspirators” to face trial in India and to dismantle terrorist training camps. Pakistan says it cannot extradite its own nationals to India and is fighting terrorism.
Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, was untypically blunt in claiming that the attack on Mumbai was aided by “official” agencies in Pakistan, widely perceived to have been a jab at the Pakistani military’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
Yesterday Lieutenant General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha, Pakistan’s intelligence chief, played down the threat of war over the Mumbai attacks and emphasised that terrorism, not India, was the greatest threat to the country.
“We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds,” Pasha was quoted as saying in Germany’s Der Spiegel. “We know full well that terror is our enemy, not India.”
In the absence of trust the United States has been working as a broker between the two sides. Diplomats have shuttled between Islamabad and Delhi trying to convince both to find common ground.
While Washington is clear that it accepts Pakistan has a price to pay irrespective of its role in stabilising Afghanistan, US officials have been careful not to blame the ISI or the Pakistani military, putting diplomatic distance between themselves and New Delhi.
Analysts say the real issue is how to get India and Pakistan to work together on the issue of terrorism. “The problem is the rhetoric is boxing them in,” said Samina Ahmed, of the International Crisis Group. “All that happens is you limit the options when it comes to working together.”
This is a scanned copy of the 69-page dossier of material stemming from the ongoing investigation into the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 26-29, 2008 that was handed over by India to Pakistan on January 5, 2009.
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