New Delhi: India feels that its stand is vindicated in the disclosures made by the Pakistani chief investigator of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in a newspaper column that the terror strike was planned and launched from Pakistani soil. “We have always insisted that the 2008 terror attack were planned, financed and carried out by people from Pakistan. Also, it is our view that 99 per cent of the evidence in the Mumbai case is in Pakistan,” government sources said were quoted as saying.
They added that prosecutors in Pakistan had enough evidence against the perpetrators of the deadly attacks and that if they had revealed it the outcome of the trial would have been different, a reference to the fact that those responsible for it, including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, are roaming free in Pakistan.
Tariq Khosa, who went on to become DG of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (from January 1, 2009 to December 7, 2009) a little after the Mumbai bloodshed, wrote in a column in the newspaper Dawn, “Pakistan has to deal with the Mumbai mayhem, planned and launched from its soil. This requires facing the truth and admitting mistakes.”
