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Pakistan says it has been expelling suspected foreign terrorists
Toronto News.Net
Thursday 4th December, 2008
Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Abdullah Hussain Haroon has told the US television network CBS that Pakistan has been handing over foreigners caught in Pakistan, who have been suspected of carrying out terrorist activity.
When asked if Pakistan would take action against those behind the Mumbai attacks, Mr Haroon said that India must first prove that the attackers were Pakistani citizens.
He was quoted as saying: "I don't think they could be Pakistanis. There are foreigners in certain parts of Pakistan whom we have been fighting and handing over under rendition. You have been picking up people from that part of the world and I personally believe that the important thing to understand is that we are trying to co-operate."
When asked if in his view the Mumbai attackers had come from Afghanistan into Pakistan and then gone to India, Haroon answered, "I would not know where they have come from. And if any of them are Pakistanis, they could be misguided youth in Pakistan."
Whatever has happened in Mumbai, we are willing to co-operate and that's the important thing," he said.
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Anonymous
12-04-08, 12:35 PM |
Pakistan says it has been expelling suspected foreign terrorists
aaaahhaaaaaha
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;) Midnight
12-04-08, 03:02 PM |
Oh I completely agree. The brothers don’t particularly like this government right now. This can only add to the anguish that Pakistanis must endure everyday. If you wanted to tear the place down this would be the way.
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waltky
12-04-08, 08:41 PM |
What did they know, and when did they know it?...
:confused:
How Deep is Pakistani Involvement in the Mumbai Attack?
Thursday, Dec. 04, 2008 - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice landed in Islamabad on Thursday walking on a diplomatic tight-rope.
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She had just been through India and knew that New Delhi wanted Washington’s help in getting Pakistan to crack down on groups implicated in last week’s terror attack on Mumbai. But she also knew that such a crackdown would be unpopular in Pakistan and could very well destabilize its weak civilian government. How then to mollify India’s saber-rattling public while getting Pakistan’s officials to act against their own interest? The two nuclear-powered nations of the subcontinent have been to war against each other three times, and tempers are now rising on both sides of the border.
The moment has been made all the more delicate by the intricacies — and mysteries — of the investigation of the Mumbai massacre. Meeting the press in Islamabad, Rice shied away from pointing a finger at Pakistan, saying only that Pakistan had a “special responsibility” in dealing with the aftermath of the attacks. This was despite the claims of an anonymous American defense official in the New York Times linking the Islamist militant group, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), which allegedly trained the Mumbai attackers, to ex-officers in the Pakistan’s intelligence service. Indian officials believe that the LeT masterminded these attacks, as well as previous ones on the country’s Parliament building in 2001 — grounds, some suggest, for targeted strikes against the group’s base camps within Pakistan.
Rice has urged Pakistan’s President Asif Zardari and his government to act “with resolve and a real sense of transparency” in dealing with the terrorist groups Pakistan harbors. Zardari, for his part, denied having received any evidence of Pakistani involvement. But the civilian government in Islamabad, like almost all others before it, wields little real power in a state that has always been dominated by the military. “Zardari’s government was born with its hands tied," says B. Raman, a noted Indian commentator and columnist. Indian investigators say they can pin the attacks on Pakistan for a number of reasons: the GPS coordinates of the fishing boat the terrorists used to land in Mumbai lead back to the Pakistani city of Karachi; e-mails as well as a phone call claiming responsibility for the attack trace back to Lahore, also in Pakistan, where the LeT has its civilian front.
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