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Mumbai police looks for Dawood, local links
Mumbai, December 1 The number of militants who entered the city through the sea was 10 and “they are all accounted for,” said joint commissioner of the Mumbai police (crime branch) Rakesh Maria. He, however, said they were probing possible local support being extended by some people in the metropolis and “everything would be clear only after investigations”. While nine terrorists had been shot at three locations-Taj Mahal and Oberoi Hotels and Nariman House-one Ajmal Amin Kamal was arrested from Chowpatty after a shootout. Sources, involved in the investigations, said more blankets had been found in a fishing motor boat that belonged to the fishermen who had been killed by the Lashkar militants in the high seas while entering Indian waters. Kamal, whose name was being also referred as Kasab and Kasav, told interrogators that they were only 10 men and denied any local link, the sources said. A massive manhunt had been launched to nab a Colaba-based businessman, an alleged henchman of Dawood Ibrahim, who has been designated as Global Terrorist by the US and is suspected to be having links with the Al-Qaida. He looks after some customs clearing mechanism and also indulges in diesel smuggling for the underworld don, the sources said. The underworld don’s men had also provided a complete picture of the terror targets-the two hotels and the Chhabad House, which houses the Israelis, the sources said. — PTI
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‘India failed to convince world it’s a major terror victim’
New York, December 1 New Delhi never made an “adequate case” to “outsiders” proving Islamabad’s involvement in terror attacks in the country, as a result of which major countries never brought enough pressure on Pakistan to stop backing of armed radicals in India, Sumit Ganguly says in a write-up in the upcoming issue of Newsweek. Ganguly, director of research at the Center on American and Global Security at Indiana University in Bloomington, called this a public relations failure. Indian authorities have failed to convince the world that their country is a major victim of terror despite statistics showing that it ranks second only to Iraq in terms of casualties, he writes. Not all attacks over the years, he says, have been foreign-linked. But many, especially in Punjab and in Kashmir, have and the culprit has been Pakistan. “Yet New Delhi has never made an adequate case proving Islamabad’s involvement to outsiders, relying instead on crude rhetoric that’s convinced no one. Even now, in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, Indian leaders haven’t shed much light on the copious circumstantial evidence tying the marauders to India’s great nemesis,” he adds. As a result, he writes, Pakistan’s major supporters, especially the US (and, to a lesser extent, the UK), have never brought sufficient pressure to bear on Islamabad to cut off its backing of armed radicals in India.
— PTI
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