Mumbai Attacks

[BanglaBhoot]

By ERIC BELLMAN

MUMBAI -- In the Worli Camp district here, a stretch of crumbling concrete buildings that houses thousands of police and their families, residents are grappling with the aftershocks of the terror attacks that left 16 police among the 171 dead and unleashed scorn on the force.

Since the attacks ended Nov. 29, many have wondered how Mumbai's police force of 42,000 failed to present any meaningful challenge to 10 terrorists with assault rifles and grenades. But for the 5,000 inhabitants of this police ghetto, with its grocery store, hospital and temples just for law-enforcement officials, the attacks delivered a more complex message.

The deaths in the line of duty and the capture of one terror suspect alive have been a cause for pride and sadness. Criticism of the police reaction to the attacks has added anger to the mix of emotions.

"Everyone is always blaming the police," says Assistant Police Inspector Sanjay Govilkar, who grew up in Worli Camp, a British military encampment before India gained independence in 1947; his father was a policeman too. "I want people to look toward us positively, not hate us."

India's police force hasn't expanded to match its vast population. The number of police per 100,000 people has slipped to 125 today from 134 in 1996, according to India's National Crime Record Bureau. That compares with a global average of more than 200 per 100,000 people, experts say. Most police work 12-hour shifts, six days a week, for which they make less than $200 a month. The vast majority are armed only with bamboo sticks called lathis. The government has been criticized for the force's lack of preparation. And the shortcomings in the police response have added to a stereotype across India of police as pot-bellied, mustachioed men more interested in squeezing a bribe out of citizens than in keeping the peace.

Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Group, which runs the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, one of the hotels that was targeted, cited the security services' lack of readiness for the severity of the attacks. "The police were not equipped to engage," he told a local news channel last week. "There didn't seem means to get reinforcements."

The government has since announce plans to beef up the police system with a national investigative force and more rapid-action forces. It's also pledged to improve training and equipment.

For many at Worli Camp, the terror attacks confirmed that Mumbai's force is underequipped and overworked. Psychologists maintain that in India, as elsewhere, depression, alcoholism and suicide are chronic problems for police. In the wake of the attacks, many police are also struggling with anger, guilt and post-traumatic stress.

Mr. Govilkar, 40 years old, wasn't working Nov. 26, the day the attacks began. Like many other police in Worli Camp that day, he jumped in a taxi and went to help. Later that night, he was shot in the back during fighting with two of the alleged terrorists when they drove a hijacked car into a police roadblock. Though the 16 police manning the roadblock had only two handguns among them, they killed one of the attackers and caught the other -- the only one to be captured alive.

Today, Mr. Govilkar's wound is healing, but he is having trouble sleeping. He misses three police friends who were killed, he said. He wishes the force had better equipment and training -- and that people understood how hard the police work.

"I was devastated. Our man was killed right in front of me," he said at his family's one-bedroom home in Block 25 of Worli Camp. "The police force is my family."

Attitudes toward the police have changed in Mumbai since Mr. Govilkar joined the force in the early 1990s. Back then, police often were portrayed as heroes in Bollywood movies. Today they are more likely to be the bad guys. Over the past 20 years, members of the Mumbai force have been charged with crimes such as murder and rape and with participating in attacks on Muslims during religious riots.

Worli Camp residents say the police did their best with what they had. "This should never have happened," said Nilesh Kadam, a third-generation policeman, sitting in front of his home in Worli Camp with his one-year-old daughter hanging on his knee. "How are you going to stop a terrorist with a night stick?"

The camp is full of billboards with the faces of the dead police. "Worli Camp Salutes Those Killed in the Terrorist Attacks. Theirs was a Hero's Death." reads one. Even the children pretend to be heroes. "Let's play Taj hotel," said one boy. "That person there could be a terrorist."

Some good has come in the aftermath of the attacks, Mr. Govilkar said. He is getting respect from many of his friends and relatives for the first time, and he has received awards from the Mumbai Rotary and Lions Clubs for his valor.

In the past, his 11-year-old son Parth had shown little interest in following him into the service. But after the Lions Club ceremony, Parth surprised his father by announcing that he, too, has decided to become a policeman.

Police Morale Takes a Hit In Wake of Mumbai Attacks - WSJ.com

 

[MastanKhan]

Moscow,

You just beat me to it---I was just about going to post a thread regarding the DNA.

The hair and other samples from the boat would be extremely impoprtant as well---they are all a part of the crime scene---unless india wants to hide something----.


On the same note----I look at the picture of Amir Kasab----and what jumps out at me just by looking at the picture----this kid didnot grow up in a village in a poor family----niether the facial features justify his ethnic background, nor the posture, physical attribution show that he came from the background as is being portrayed.

Just looking at the picture----the reflection of the person shows an educated young man----the posture is that of a confident young guy with a " I DON'T GIVE A F _ C K " kind of attitude.

There will be dirt on the soles of the shoes as well as dirt left from the shoes in the boat as well----grains of sand would tell if it was from karachi or mumbai---food left over, clothes they were wearing, clothes that were left over in the boat----material in the body hair, socks, undergarments----there would be a thousand and one things that would point to where these people have come from---if these people accordingly carried their " pakistani I D's and their cell phones on them " during the confrontation, then I don't think that they would be so bright to destroy all the eidence leading back to their place of origin----they they intentionally wanted to.

Linking just the DNA to the siblings is not that important----any pakistani tourist can be kidnapped by the indians or any freedom fighter captured in kashmir by the indian forces can be made a scape goat by the indians----the true relation to the crime comes out from related items----the items on their persona---and the items on the boat----these items would match it step by a step and trace back the journey to its origin.

 

[must7]

I would not say that it is just the police which failed the society, I was wondering was the army commandos like the black cats which are usually loaned to the civilian setup !

I would say that the blame should also be taken by the army who ferried commandos by bus !

 

[Moscow]

Moscow,

You just beat me to it---I was just about going to post a thread regarding the DNA.

The hair and other samples from the boat would be extremely impoprtant as well---they are all a part of the crime scene---unless india wants to hide something----.


On the same note----I look at the picture of Amir Kasab----and what jumps out at me just by looking at the picture----this kid didnot grow up in a village in a poor family----niether the facial features justify his ethnic background, nor the posture, physical attribution show that he came from the background as is being portrayed.

Just looking at the picture----the reflection of the person shows an educated young man----the posture is that of a confident young guy with a " I DON'T GIVE A F _ C K " kind of attitude.

There will be dirt on the soles of the shoes as well as dirt left from the shoes in the boat as well----grains of sand would tell if it was from karachi or mumbai---food left over, clothes they were wearing, clothes that were left over in the boat----material in the body hair, socks, undergarments----there would be a thousand and one things that would point to where these people have come from---if these people accordingly carried their " pakistani I D's and their cell phones on them " during the confrontation, then I don't think that they would be so bright to destroy all the eidence leading back to their place of origin----they they intentionally wanted to.

Linking just the DNA to the siblings is not that important----any pakistani tourist can be kidnapped by the indians or any freedom fighter captured in kashmir by the indian forces can be made a scape goat by the indians----the true relation to the crime comes out from related items----the items on their persona---and the items on the boat----these items would match it step by a step and trace back the journey to its origin.

sir thank you for your thoughts,
i think this is the approach the investigation agencies should take.specialists in this regard can also be brought from other countries.
the world community is always ready to help in the investigations.

 

[AliFarooq]

this is off topic, but snipers have the hardest training of all,

 

[Super Falcon]

i agree with you friend par ab wo waqt agaya ka pakistan ko shurwat karni padagi bhoot sakht mezaj ki against America, India and israel aur iran aur china koak china apna pakka itihadi banana hoga jab phir iran ki maddad sa russia ko pakistan ka dost banna hoga agar america inda ka dos ban sakta ha tu russia pakistan ka kyo nahe aur russia ko karna chahta battana hoga ka hum apki maddad ha taka app apna badla america sa lan aur afghanistan sa america ko nikal saken iran russia and china are anti america we just need to change our mind set

 

[Pk_Thunder]

Chinese FM for defusing Pak-India tension​

Updated at: 1907 PST, Friday, December 26, 2008

Chinese FM for defusing Pak-India tension ISLAMABAD: Chinese foreign minister telephoned Pakistan counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi and had an exchange of views on bilateral relations besides regional and international issues.

Chinese FM stressed the need for defusing Pak-India tension and in this regard underscored holding of dialogue for resolution of issues.

Tension between the two countries will only help terrorists grow stronger, he added.

He assured his Pakistani counterpart of China’s continued cooperation to Pakistan for bringing peace and stability in the region.

Shah Mehmmod Qureshi said Pakistan is ready to launch combined investigation if India provides concrete evidence in connection with the Mumbai violence.

 

[BanglaBhoot]

A lesson from Mumbai ...

Metal detectors, armed guards and sniffer dogs aren't usually the signs of a celebration. But the celebrations Sunday night marking the partial reopenings of two hotels hit last month in the terrorist siege of Mumbai are, of necessity, accompanied by a heightened vigilance. That's the new reality in India.

Indians—Mumbaikers in particular—have long prided themselves on bouncing back from terrorist attacks that have become far too common. But last month's assaults on Mumbai, which left 171 people dead, finally moved a famously resilient and unflappable people to anger.

Yes, Indians are angry at Pakistan, which served as a launch point for the Mumbai onslaught. The rest of the world is watching nervously, waiting to see if Pakistan will turn over to India people who are suspected of masterminding the attack.

But there's another aspect of this that has international implications. Citizens of India are also angry at their own government for failing to keep them safe.

The three-day assault on Mumbai, carried out apparently by just 10 men, exposed India's rickety security and its failure to prepare for terrorism.

Mumbai police were outgunned by the small band of terrorists. The police didn't have bulletproof vests or radio communications. Many were armed with nothing more than lathis—bamboo sticks. The attackers carried AK-47s, pistols and hand grenades.

Fire crews arrived hours after they were needed at the burning Taj Mahal Hotel. India's best forces, the "Black Cats" commandos, are based outside Delhi and didn't get to Mumbai until nearly 10 hours after the attacks started. The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's equivalent of the CIA, had warned of a potential terrorist attack on Mumbai, specifically on its hotels. State and local police insist they received no information upon which they could act.

Beyond the disastrous response, India has generally been lackadaisical about security. The nation has about 122 police officers for every 100,000 citizens; the United Nations recommends 222 police. The coast guard has fewer than 100 boats.

McClatchy Newspapers reported that there are fewer than 2,300 weapons—revolvers, rifles and the like—available to the 180,000-strong police force of Maharashtra state, which includes Mumbai.

The priorities of leaders have come under sharp scrutiny. Julio Ribeiro, a former police chief in Mumbai, told McClatchy, "All this can change only when politicians stop recruiting yes-men to the top echelons of the police, and stop diverting elite commandos toward their own personal security."

All this is astonishing, given that India has suffered numerous terrorist attacks in recent years. Last year alone, 1,093 people were killed in terrorist violence in India. Only Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan suffered more terrorism-related deaths.

India had plenty of warning and time to prepare. Perhaps it couldn't have avoided an attack, but it surely could have been better prepared to try, better prepared to respond more quickly and effectively.

India, its citizens stunned and angry and blaming their failed leaders, will have to play catch-up if it hopes to protect the country. The citizens of India are angry. And the rest of us have a reminder: Be vigilant.

A lesson from Mumbai ... -- chicagotribune.com

 

[SherdiL!]

there police Kevelar is too strong watch out !

 

[pardesifr]

Listen what Iran say about Mubai drama

 

[Bane Blade]

Not something unimaginable since he is after all always on the tail of accusing America for eveything although I do think he should come up with some evidence backing his claims.

 

[BanglaBhoot]

Lanny Davis

There is enough horrible and tragic about the terrorist attacks and killings of innocent people in Mumbai (the city long known in the West as Bombay) in the last several days without some careless media reporting and premature accusations by Indian officials suggesting Pakistani government responsibility making matters worse.

Full disclosure: I represented Pakistan in the 1990s, have visited the country several times, and made many close Pakistani friends during the time I helped Pakistan recover hundreds of millions of dollars the U.S. government owed it.

It is not clear whether the government of India has actually made charges that the government of Pakistan was involved in the attacks or simply remained silent while certain of its officials anonymously suggested such involvement, broadcast through speculative media reporting rather than waiting for the facts to emerge.

For example, Saturday´s New York Times quoted unnamed U.S. intelligence officials that early “evidence” indicated that Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group based in Pakistani Kashmir, “might” have been involved in the terrorist attacks. (Kashmir remains divided between Pakistani-controlled and Indian-controlled territories, and Islamabad in years past has reportedly allowed militant groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba to operate against Indian forces from their base in Pakistani Kashmir).

The Times paraphrased the Indian foreign minister, Pranab Mukherjee, as stating that “early evidence explicitly pointed to Pakistan´s involvement.” Note the words “explicitly” and “Pakistan´s involvement.” But the actual quote from the foreign minister is a bit more ambiguous. He is quoted as actually saying, “Preliminary evidence, prima facie evidence, indicates elements with links to Pakistan are involved.”

“Elements” with “links” to “Pakistan”? That is pure innuendo. That certainly implies the government of Pakistan was involved, but it could also mean, simply, that some of the murderous terrorists happened to be Pakistani.

Exacerbating the innuendo suggesting Pakistani government involvement are references to the secretive Pakistan intelligence agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI. It has often been reported that in years past the ISI has supported, directly or indirectly, Lashkar-e-Taiba and other militant groups in Pakistani Kashmir supporting the reuniting of Kashmir as part of Pakistan. It has also been frequently reported that the ISI supported the Taliban during the pre-9/11 years when the Taliban controlled the Afghan government and served as a base for Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

But that does not mean the ISI, especially under the new democratically elected government of Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of the late former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, had anything to do with Mumbai.

Nevertheless, the Indian government at the highest level needs to control casual remarks by senior officials suggesting a connection between the Mumbai horror and the government and people of Pakistan. The times are too dangerous to get out in front of the facts - especially between two nuclear powers.

Perhaps just as important, it simply isn´t fair.

Buried in the weekend´s press reports are statements from the same anonymous U.S. intelligence “officials” briefing the New York Times reporters about the possible involvement of a group of Pakistani Kashmir-based militants was the statement that there was “no evidence that the Pakistani government had any role in the attacks.” But that sentence either was downplayed or omitted from most other media reporting.

Mr. Zardari, the Pakistani president, wasted no time immediately issuing public statements abhorring the terrorist attacks and offering full cooperation to find out who was behind the attacks.

On Friday, as the attacks were unfolding and there were already published reports of Pakistan's involvement spreading around the world on the Internet, Mr. Zardari immediately stated, “Non-state actors wanted to force upon the governments their own agenda, but they must not be allowed to succeed.”

During a four-day visit to India, which happened to fall during the terrorist attacks, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi reacted to the innuendo apparently coming from Indian politicians and officials by saying to the Indian government, “Do not bring politics into this issue. This is a collective issue. We are facing a common enemy, and we should join hands and defeat the enemy.”

The Pakistani ambassador to the U.S. - Husain Haqqani, a former professor from Boston University and an old personal acquaintance - endorsed “confronting the menace of terrorism with great vigor.” He also made the obvious point - but not so obvious from reading most media reports - that it is “unfair to blame Pakistan [for] terrorism even before an investigation is undertaken.”

To demonstrate its bona fides, Pakistan took the unusual - indeed from a historical standpoint, breathtakingly unprecedented - position of offering to send a representative of the ISI to India to help with the investigation. If such a suggestion had been made as recently as last year, the person suggesting it would have been seen as taking leave of his senses.

India and Pakistan are two truly great countries with which America must maintain close relations - in the war against terror, to deal with the global economic crisis, in trade, and most important, to work together to avoid violence and even a nuclear confrontation over Kashmir, giving a new President-elect Barack Obama a chance to facilitate a final, peaceful solution to the Kashmir dispute as one of his highest foreign-policy priorities.

There are no easy answers. India and Pakistan cannot, as Mr. Zardari stated, allow murderous non-state terrorists to get in the way of peaceful solutions and cooperation between these two great nuclear powers on the subcontinent.

The facts will come out about who is behind this terrorism. All, including the media, need to be patient and wait for that to happen, rather than whisper - and publish - inflammatory and unsubstantiated innuendo.

Washington Times - DAVIS: Mumbai tragedy: Beware of innuendo on Pakistan

 

[cooldude]

By ZAHID HUSSAIN, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and PETER WONACOTT

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's own investigation of terror attacks in Mumbai has begun to show substantive links between the 10 gunmen and an Islamic militant group that its powerful spy agency spent years supporting, say people with knowledge of the probe.

At least one top leader of militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, or "Army of the Pure," captured in a raid earlier this month in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, has confessed the group's involvement in the attack as India and the U.S. have alleged, according to a senior Pakistani security official.

The disclosure could add new international pressure on Pakistan to accept that the attacks, which left 171 dead in India, originated within its borders and to prosecute or extradite the suspects. That raises difficult and potentially destabilizing issues for the country's new civilian government, its military and the spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence -- which is conducting interrogations of militants it once cultivated as partners.

Pakistani security officials say a top Lashkar commander, Zarar Shah, has admitted a role in the Mumbai attack during interrogation, according to the security official, who declined to be identified discussing the investigation. "He is singing," the security official said of Mr. Shah. The admission, the official said, is backed up by U.S. intercepts of a phone call between Mr. Shah and one of the attackers at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, the site of a 60-hour confrontation with Indian security forces.

A second person familiar with the investigation said Mr. Shah told Pakistani interrogators that he was one of the key planners of the operation, and that he spoke with the attackers during the rampage to give them advice and keep them focused.

The person said Mr. Shah had implicated other Lashkar members, and had broadly confirmed the story told by the sole captured gunman to Indian investigators -- that the 10 assailants trained in Pakistan's part of Kashmir and then went by boat from Karachi to Mumbai. Mr. Shah said the attackers also spent at least a few weeks in Karachi, a crowded Arabian Sea port, training in urban combat to hone skills they would use in their assault.

Mr. Shah was picked up along with fellow Lashkar commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi during the military camp raids in Kashmir.

The Mumbai attacks have stoked tensions in India and Pakistan, producing allegations and counter-allegations that have both countries headed toward conflict. Pakistan recently redeployed some troops from the fight against Islamic militants toward the Indian border, and India warned its citizens not to travel to Pakistan. India and Pakistan, both nuclear-armed, have fought three wars since their independent in 1947.

The probe also is stress-testing an uncomfortable shift under way at Pakistan's spy agency -- and the government -- since the election of civilian leadership replacing the military-led regime in September. Military and intelligence officials acknowledge they have long seen India as their primary enemy and Islamist extremists such as Lashkar as allies. But now the ISI is in the midst of being revamped, and its ranks purged of those seen as too soft on Islamic militants.

That revamp and the Mumbai attacks are in turn putting pressure on the civilian leadership, which risks a backlash among the population -- and among elements of ISI and the military -- if it is too accommodating to India. "The ISI can make or break any regime in Pakistan," said retired Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg, a former army chief. "Don't fight the ISI."

The delicate politics of the Mumbai investigation have given the spy agency renewed sway just when the government was trying to limit its influence. A Western diplomat said the question now is what Pakistan will do with the evidence it is developing.

The big fear in the West and India is a repeat of what happened after a 2001 attack on India's parliament, which led to the ban on Lashkar. Top militant leaders were arrested only to be released months later. Lashkar and other groups continued to operate openly, even though formal ISI connections were scaled back or closed, the diplomat said.

"They've got the guys. They have the confessions. What do they do now?" the diplomat said. "We need to see that this is more than a show. We want to see the entire infrastructure of terror dismantled. There needs to be real prosecutions this time."

A spokesman for new president Asif Ali Zardari, Farhatullah Babar, said Tuesday that he wasn't aware of the Pakistani investigation yet producing any links between Lashkar militants and the Mumbai attacks. "The Interior ministry has already stated that the government of Pakistan has not been furnished with any evidence," he said.

The Pakistani security official cautioned that the investigation is still in early stages and a more full picture could emerge once India decides to share more information. Pakistani authorities didn't have evidence that Lashkar was involved in the attacks before the militants' arrest in Kashmir, the security official said; they were captured based only on initial guidance from U.S and British authorities.

Vishnu Prakash, a spokesman for India's foreign ministry, said in a telephone interview that all India's evidence will be shared with Pakistan soon, when the investigation is complete. But Mr. Prakash expressed doubt Pakistan would act, based on what he said was its investigative track record: "Whenever actionable intelligence is given, our friends make sure it is neutralized, and then it cannot be acted upon," he said.

In the nearly four months since Mr. Zardari was elected, civilian and military leaders have been working to remake the role the ISI plays in the country's affairs, and take aim at an intelligence apparatus that diplomats and analysts suspect still hasn't fully severed links to extremist groups such as Lashkar.

New agency chief Lt. General Ahmed Shuja Pasha and army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani have flushed out top and mid-level hard-liners associated with the agency's past murky past dealings with terrorist organizations. Two deputies under Gen. Pasha's predecessor were removed and dozens of other lower-level officials sacked. The agency's political cell, which monitored the country's own politicians and parties and helped make it a political kingmaker, has been closed, its operatives dispersed through the agency.

In a televised remarks Tuesday, Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Pakistan offered to send a high-level delegation to New Delhi to help investigate the Mumbai attacks.

"Traditionally there has been a sort of disconnect between the political leadership and the leadership of the security establishment," said Mr. Babar, the spokesman for Mr. Zardari. Under the new regime, he said, "There is harmony."

There also have been increasing tensions. Mr. Zardari -- who replaced his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, as their party's candidate to lead the country after her assassination last year -- has faced frequent reminders that the military's step back from political control has its limits, and could be reversed.

Mr. Zardari initially offered to send Gen. Pasha himself to aid India's investigation into the Mumbai attacks, then had to rescind it when the military objected. He surprised the military this month by announcing Pakistan would never hit India with a first-strike nuclear attack.

Two months before his election, Mr. Zardari as party chief mounted an attempt to wrest the control of the ISI from the military and place it under a close political adviser. Word spread through a wedding attended by Pakistan's top army brass. "I was certainly not consulted," a grim-faced Gen. Kayani told another guest. Top army officials started working the phones. The next day, July 27, the government announced that its original notice had been "misinterpreted." It later withdrew the notice entirely.

ISI's headquarters, surrounded by manicured lawns and fountains, sits behind unmarked walls and armed checkpoints in the heart of Islamabad. Founded in 1948, the ISI moved into politics during Pakistan's military governments of the 1960s. It formally established its political cell under a civilian prime minister -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, father of Mr. Zardari's murdered wife. But over the years the spy chiefs -- the agency leadership is all active military officers -- often proved more loyal to the military than the government.

During the Soviet Union's occupation of neighboring Afghanistan in the 1980s, Pakistan's spies became partners with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which cultivated the same insurgent groups at the time. In the 1990s, the ISI helped fashion Lashkar into one of the most potent Islamic militant forces battling Indian troops in Kashmir.

The Indian government blamed the ISI for helping plot the 1993 Mumbai bombings, which killed hundreds of people. The agency and Pakistan government still deny ISI involvement. The ISI purged scores of extremist officers from its ranks. But Pakistan continued to support anti-India militants in Kashmir and the ISI maintained extensive links to the Taliban, according to Western and Indian security officials. Current and former ISI officials acknowledge the ISI maintained extensive links to the Taliban.

After the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the U.S., Pakistan's military-led government signed on as an ally in the global battle against Islamic terrorism, and the ISI helped coalition forces rout the Taliban. According to a former ISI officer, hundreds of ISI operatives involved with the Afghan cell were removed from ISI.

In recent years, Lashkar and other groups have turned to waging global violence against largely civilian targets that has put Pakistan under rising pressure from its allies and complicated peace negotiations with India. The groups also are striking targets within Pakistan. They have become, said the ISI official, "a monster we've created that we can't put back in the box."

Pakistan banned Lashkar under pressure from the U.S. and India in 2002 but did little to curtail its activities until earlier this month, when it enforced a new United Nations resolution banning its charitable front, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, and arrested senior leaders of both organizations.

The current revamp of the ISI began in September when President Zardari and Gen. Kayani replaced the agency's chief, Lt. General Nadeem Taj, who was seen as not aggressive enough toward militants. The new chief, Gen. Pasha, has overseen major offensives against al Qaeda-supported militants in Pakistan's tribal regions.

 

[must7]

Cool .. you post is missing the link.

 

[omairhr]

Doesn't Pak have any media laws? How can they allow people to broadcast this crap?

This guy is making Pakistani media the laughing stock of the world.

Imagine (if you can) yourself as a Pakistani and listen to the crap Indian media throws up.... talk about laws!