Mumbai: Former chief of Pakistan's probe agency Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Tariq Khosa, admitted in an article that the 26/11 attack was launched from Pakistani soil.
In the article, Khosa also said that Ajmal Kasab was a Pakistani national and all 26/11 terrorists were trained in Pakistan. He also wrote: “Other missing links need to be uncovered after the absconders’ arrest. This case will not be over soon.”
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The training camp near Thatta in Sindh province, where the LeT terrorists were trained and launched by sea, was identified and secured by investigators. The fishing trawler used by the attackers for hijacking an Indian trawler, in which they sailed to Mumbai, was brought back to a Pakistani harbour, painted and concealed. But it was recovered by investigators and connected to the accused, Khosa wrote in the article.
Khosa agrees with India on the slow trial of Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi and his men. Lakhvi is one of seven suspects on trial in Pakistan in connection with the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.
"The case has lingered on for far too long. Dilatory tactics by the defendants, frequent change of trial judges, and assassination of the case prosecutor as well as retracting from original testimony by some key witnesses have been serious setbacks for the prosecutors."
Lakhvi, the suspected mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks was freed from a Pakistani jail in April after a court ordered his release. India has repeatedly urged Pakistan to more actively pursue the case.
