US names Pak man for blasts on Samjhauta

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US names Pak man for blasts on Samjhauta
14 Feb 2009, 0512 hrs IST, TNN
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NEW DELHI: In what should scotch all doubts about who was responsible for the Samjhauta Express blasts of February 2007 that killed about 70

people, US has approached the UN to get a certain Asif Kasmani declared an international terrorist.

The reasons cited by US to get Kasmani, a Pakistani national, declared an international terrorist are his involvement in the Samjhauta Express blasts.

Kasmani is considered to be the link between Laskar-e-Toiba and Al Qaida. Though India had blamed the Samjhauta Express blasts on elements from Pakistan, the latter has strenuously denied any connection to the incident.

Much later, a goof-up by the prosecution in the Malegaon blast case raised some doubts about the involvement of Abhinav Bharat plotter Lt Col Srikant Purohit, bringing an Hindutva terror element into play. This had given Pakistan a handle, claiming that terror events are routinely blamed on it while the "Hindu" angle was ignored.


Truth came out again. Its Pakistan who are behind blasts and nt hindus.
Its very shameful on part of indian congress to target hindus just for the sake of muslim votes.

 

[Halaku Khan]

Actually, even Rehman Malik seems to have admitted that the 26/11 suspects are also suspects for the Samjhauta bombing (see bold part below):

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Pakistan unveils Mumbai arrests - swissinfo



Rehman Malik gestures during a news conference


By Kamran Haider

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani government said on Thursday for the first time that last November's attack on Mumbai was launched and partly planned from Pakistan, and it was holding in custody a ringleader and five other suspects.

"Some part of the conspiracy has taken place in Pakistan," Rehman Malik, adviser to the prime minister on the interior, told a news conference remarkable for the extent to which it acknowledged Pakistani involvement.

Malik said six suspects were in custody and two were known but still at large.

He detailed how the gunmen had sailed from Karachi to carry out the attack that killed 179 people in the Indian financial capital between November 26-28.

Pakistani officials shared the findings of the investigation with India's High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal, and the Indian foreign ministry later issued a statement describing the Pakistani actions as a "positive development."

Tensions have been running high between India and Pakistan since the attack by 10 gunmen on India's financial capital last November, though fear of a conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours has receded in recent weeks.

India has maintained the plot was hatched in Pakistan, and the slow speed with which Islamabad has acted fuelled Indian suspicions that Pakistani intelligence agencies have not cut their old ties with jihadi groups.

In particular, New Delhi has pressed for forceful action by Pakistani authorities against militants belonging to Laskhar-e-Taiba, a jihadi group it says was responsible.

Pakistan, which had earlier complained that India had failed to furnish it with enough evidence, released the long-awaited results of its investigation as Richard Holbrooke, President Barack Obama's new special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, rounded off a four-day visit to the country.

Holbrooke was scheduled to arrive in Kabul later on Thursday, and would visit India early next week on the final leg of a regional tour to devise a grand strategy for stabilising Afghanistan and eliminating the al Qaeda threat in Pakistan.

Tracing telephone calls and bank transfers had led to the capture of a key figure in the conspiracy, Hammad Amin Sadiq, Malik said.

"He was basically the main operator," Malik said, adding that his interrogation led to the raid on two hideouts, one in the port city, and one two hours outside.

"We have located those locations which were used by the terrorists before launching themselves," Malik said.

"They had some kind of training, they went into the ocean," he said, saying they had sailed from Karachi.

"Some of the accused who have been arrested, they have given us the full rundown."

Malik said the breakthrough in the investigation had resulted from tracing the fishing vessel used by the militants, purchases of equipment like life jackets and the engine for the rubber dinghy that militants came ashore in Mumbai.

Rehman said Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, two members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, were still in custody.

He said two other men being held were Khan and Riaz, withholding their full names so as not to compromise the investigation.

LINKS TO EUROPE AND U.S.

One of those arrested, identified as Javed Iqbal, was lured back to Pakistan from the Spanish city of Barcelona, Malik said.

Investigators had also discovered some funds transferred from Italy and Spain were used to finance the attack, and Austrian telephone sim cards were used. Malik spoke too of a link, possibly an Internet domain, to Houston in the United States.

Malik said investigators had been unable to confirm the identities of the nine gunmen killed in the attack, though Pakistan has confirmed Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the gunman caught alive, was a Pakistani.

He said only nine of the 10 gunmen came ashore in the dinghy, and the fishing boat they had used to sail from Karachi had refuelled on the coast of India's Gujurat state.

The Pakistani official said one suspect was allegedly involved in the 2007 bomb attack on the Samjhauta Express in India that killed 68 people as the train headed for the Pakistani city of Lahor, and India had been requested for more information.

Malik said a first information report (FIR), the term for a police complaint, had been lodged to initiate a case but Pakistan needed more help from India to make charges stick.

(Additional reporting by Zeeshan Haider and Augustine Anthony; Writing by Simon Cameron-Moore; Editing by Jerry Norton)

 

[notsuperstitious]

Yes it has been clearly mentioned by indians investigating the malegaon bombers that they did investigate the possibility of hindu involvement in samjhauta blasts but concluded there was none.

yet many posters here keep going on and on and on abt handing over col purohit to pakistan!!!

I hope this shuts up the brass talkies

 

[was]

Yes it has been clearly mentioned by indians investigating the malegaon bombers that they did investigate the possibility of hindu involvement in samjhauta blasts but concluded there was none.

yet many posters here keep going on and on and on abt handing over col purohit to pakistan!!!

I hope this shuts up the brass talkies

can you provide a link

well obvisouly after kerkare is gone no evidence will be found, it,s all under the carpet

 

[notsuperstitious]

can you provide a link

well obvisouly after kerkare is gone no evidence will be found, it,s all under the carpet

hee hee hee, more conspiracy theory

Sorry to disappoint you, but the ATS headed by shaheed mr karkare had clarified this BEFORE the mumbai attack, this has already been posted here.

The Hindu : National : ATS denies linking Purohit to Samjhauta blast

pls note that purohit's role so far has been to provide RDX, whereas sanjhauta express was firebombed.

 

[dabong1]

hee hee hee, more conspiracy theory

Sorry to disappoint you, but the ATS headed by shaheed mr karkare had clarified this BEFORE the mumbai attack, this has already been posted here.

The Hindu : National : ATS denies linking Purohit to Samjhauta blast

pls note that purohit's role so far has been to provide RDX, whereas sanjhauta express was firebombed.

Maybe a international investigation should take place under then we would have more confidence in what your saying.

 

[notsuperstitious]

Maybe a international investigation should take place under then we would have more confidence in what your saying.

You are doubting Shaheed Karkare?

first of all, india did the investigation themselves, UN did not have to armtwist us, we unearthed the real perpetrators ourselves;

second, the army officers caught have been suspended from army and hence will be tried in civilian courts;

thirdly, these idiots are already being prosecuted (not secretly in camera, in public ), they'll also be punished, again we are doing it for our own good.

so if that does not give u confidence, then trust me an international investigation won't. just wait and watch what happens to benazeer investigation

 

[dabong1]

You are doubting Shaheed Karkare?

first of all, india did the investigation themselves, UN did not have to armtwist us, we unearthed the real perpetrators ourselves;

second, the army officers caught have been suspended from army and hence will be tried in civilian courts;

thirdly, these idiots are already being prosecuted (not secretly in camera, in public ), they'll also be punished, again we are doing it for our own good.

so if that does not give u confidence, then trust me an international investigation won't. just wait and watch what happens to benazeer investigation

Like i said before when the mumbai attacks happened.......all connections to the hindu right wing will be washed away and a lame investigation that finds hardly anyone guilty is what will happen........its all come true!

If your that confident hold a international investigation and maybe i will trust the indian govt on its finding.

 

[notsuperstitious]

Like i said before when the mumbai attacks happened.......all connections to the hindu right wing will be washed away and a lame investigation that finds hardly anyone guilty is what will happen........its all come true!

If your that confident hold a international investigation and maybe i will trust the indian govt on its finding.

Like i've shows above, the hindu right wing connection was probed BEFORE the mumbai attacks and was cleared BEFORE the mumbai attacks. now even US has approached UN with the real terrorist who was behind it, of course they'll have to provide evidence to the different nations (inclusing china) before this man can be declared terrorist. also pakistani investigators seem to agree that it was pakistanis who were behind the attack (see highlighed part in the second post above)

so thats ur international probe right there thank u.

 

[Energon]

well obvisouly after kerkare is gone no evidence will be found, it,s all under the carpet

Hemant Karkare wasn't some 'one-stop-shop' sleuth-wizard entrusted with magical secrets that he took with him to the grave. He was a cop who was carrying out a large investigation with the help of numerous field and staff operatives and was required to write extensive reports on all his findings as per India's infamous bureaucratic requirements. These reports were then handed over to the chiefs of all the other agencies involved in that investigation in addition to various government officials from the legislative, executive and judicial branches.

 

[Neo]

Lol...whats next? A Pakistani behind Gujerat Massacre?

Btw, I heard a rumor that Bambi too was killed by a heartless Pakistani terrorist!

 

[Skywalker]

Oh my God, they cant stop blaming Pakistan for all their own wrong doings. The only way we can get rid off this ****** neighbour is by having a buffer state between us. Aik teer say do shikaar khelnay ki nakaam koshish.loosers

 

[DarkStar]

Like i said before when the mumbai attacks happened.......all connections to the hindu right wing will be washed away and a lame investigation that finds hardly anyone guilty is what will happen........its all come true!

If your that confident hold a international investigation and maybe i will trust the indian govt on its finding.

Fateh has already completed that investigation ,and that too before the mumbai attacks...white wash ho gaya....or black wash...

 

[BanglaBhoot]

Not surprisingly the TOI is the only paper that carries the news indicating the beginnings of a cover up.

 

[TexasJohn]

Btw, I heard a rumor that Bambi too was killed by a heartless Pakistani terrorist!

Actually it was a heartless Texas deer terrorist - I LOVE venison!