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From R. Vasudevan - Reporting from New Delhi
New Delhi, 12 May (Asiantribune.com)
Pakistan is preparing to block a lawsuit in a US court that alleges complicity of its spy chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha in the audacious 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, on the grounds that it will pour "gasoline on the fire" of Indo-Pak relations.
The country's military-run ISI has roped in American lawyers, who are moving to quash the lawsuit in a Brooklyn court by arguing that if the case proceeds, it "will fuel violence and extremism" that will threaten Pakistan government and pour "gasoline on the fire" of relations between Pakistan and India, NBC News reported.
The lawsuit, filed last year by relatives of two Jewish victims of the Mumbai attacks, alleges that Pasha and his predecessor Nadeem Taj helped the LeT conduct the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, including six Americans.
It charges that the ISI provided "critical planning, material support, control and coordination" of the Mumbai attacks under the leadership of Pasha. This allegedly included providing funding to David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American who has pleaded guilty in a US federal court to conducting surveillance for the Mumbai attacks under the direction of an ISI case officer, whom he identified only as "Major Iqbal".
The lawsuit is based in "large part on evidence developed by the FBI linking the ISI to the operatives of the LeT terror group who are charged with conducting the operation", the report said.
According to a brief filed last week by lawyers Kevin Walsh and Allen C Wasserman on behalf of the ISI, the Pakistan government "regards any assertion of jurisdiction over its high officials" by a US court "as an intrusion on its sovereignty, in violation of international law".
The brief argues that Pakistan is a "wartime ally of the United States" in the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and that the lawsuit will damage that alliance.
Pak plans to block law suit in US against ISI chief | Asian Tribune
New Delhi, 12 May (Asiantribune.com)
Pakistan is preparing to block a lawsuit in a US court that alleges complicity of its spy chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha in the audacious 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, on the grounds that it will pour "gasoline on the fire" of Indo-Pak relations.
The country's military-run ISI has roped in American lawyers, who are moving to quash the lawsuit in a Brooklyn court by arguing that if the case proceeds, it "will fuel violence and extremism" that will threaten Pakistan government and pour "gasoline on the fire" of relations between Pakistan and India, NBC News reported.
The lawsuit, filed last year by relatives of two Jewish victims of the Mumbai attacks, alleges that Pasha and his predecessor Nadeem Taj helped the LeT conduct the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, including six Americans.
It charges that the ISI provided "critical planning, material support, control and coordination" of the Mumbai attacks under the leadership of Pasha. This allegedly included providing funding to David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American who has pleaded guilty in a US federal court to conducting surveillance for the Mumbai attacks under the direction of an ISI case officer, whom he identified only as "Major Iqbal".
The lawsuit is based in "large part on evidence developed by the FBI linking the ISI to the operatives of the LeT terror group who are charged with conducting the operation", the report said.
According to a brief filed last week by lawyers Kevin Walsh and Allen C Wasserman on behalf of the ISI, the Pakistan government "regards any assertion of jurisdiction over its high officials" by a US court "as an intrusion on its sovereignty, in violation of international law".
The brief argues that Pakistan is a "wartime ally of the United States" in the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and that the lawsuit will damage that alliance.
Pak plans to block law suit in US against ISI chief | Asian Tribune
