Zeenews Bureau
New Delhi: Taking on Pakistan for its apparent reluctance to act against JuD chief Hafiz Saeed citing lack of evidence, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said that enough proof has been provided and it’s time that Pakistan starts to act against the perpetrators of the 26/11 attacks.
Criticising Islamabad for inaction, Chidambaram said, “They should stop asking questions and get on with the job. There is enough evidence provided in the dossier given to Pakistan.”
"It has been a little tiresome," he said while referring
to Pakistan`s repeated claim that it does not have proof to
prosecute Saeed.
Yesterday, Pak Interior Minister Rehman Malik had said, “We cannot arrest him (JuD chief Hafiz Saeed) till adequate proof is provided. There is no proof."
Incidentally, news reports are claiming today that Pakistani investigation agencies have, for the very first time, revealed that they have adequate proof of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) being directly involved in the 26/11 terror attack.
“The investigation has established beyond any reasonable doubt that the defunct LeT activists conspired, abetted, planned, financed and established communication network to carry out terror attacks in Mumbai,” the report states.
The report discloses that training sessions for the attackers was codenamed ‘Azizabad’ (Azizabad is one of the neighbourhoods of Gulberg Town in Karachi). The investigators seized militant literature, inflatable lifeboats, detailed maps of the Indian coastline, handwritten literature on navigational training and an intelligence course manual.
Pak has been continuously flip-flopping over the issue of Saaed. First he was put under house arrest, after the UN named him in its terror list, then all of sudden he was let off for want of ‘solid evidence” justifying his continued house arrest.
Earlier this month, Pakistan had handed over a dossier to India admitting its nationals were involved in the attacks. The dossier came days before the July 16 Gilani-Manmohan Singh meeting on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Summit at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Shaikh.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after meeting his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani in Egypt had said that Gilani has informed him that "common consensus" was being evolved and that "action will have to be taken against him (Saeed)".
Saeed is the founder of the Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT) terror group that New Delhi accuses of also staging the Dec 13, 2001 attack on the Indian parliament. The LeT had morphed into the JuD after it was banned in the aftermath of the attack.
Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone gunman captured alive during the Mumbai mayhem, has admitted to being a Pakistani national and to being trained by the LeT for the Nov 26-29, 2008 Mumbai attacks that claimed the lives of over 170 people, including 26 foreigners.
Pakistan has charged five men, including LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi with involvement in the Mumbai mayhem.
