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Five training camps shut down: Pakistan
Five training camps shut down: Pakistan
Nirupama Subramanian
Over 100 people held or kept under surveillance
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Thursday that it had shut down five training camps and detained or kept under surveillance over a hundred people linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamat-ud-Dawah in connection with the Mumbai attacks. It was also setting up a team of its Federal Investigation Agency to probe the incident.
The government, however, said it needed more information from India to proceed with investigations, including access to the site of the terror attacks, and reiterated the offer of a joint probe.
The FIA team will comprise Additional Director-General Javed Iqbal; the head of the Special Investigation Group of the FIA’s anti-terror unit, Khalid Qureshi; and a director in the agency Liaquat Ali Khan, reports said.
In the first official statement about actions taken by Pakistan since the Mumbai attack, Rehman Malik, who heads the Interior Ministry, listed them out: 20 offices of the JuD shut down, as well as 87 schools linked to it, two libraries, seven seminaries and seven websites.
Also shut down are eight disaster relief camps run by the JuD, and five “training camps,” the first time Pakistan has officially acknowledged the existence of such camps.
But Mr. Malik said there was no sign of any training activity at these camps. He did not specify if the JuD’s Muridke headquarters had been sealed. He also left the number of individuals detained unclear.
At first he said 124 “top and mid-level” leaders had been detained, including Hafiz Mohammed Saaed, the head of the JuD, Mufti Abdulrehman, Col. (retd.) Nazir Ahmed, Amir Hamza and Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.
When asked about Zarar Shah, an LeT operative who is said to have played a key role in the attacks, Mr. Malik, without answering the question, said 71 people had been detained, and 125 kept under surveillance “since the last six months.”
Pakistan was “fully committed” to helping India with the investigations into the Mumbai attacks, he said.
He made an appeal to “counterparts” in India that in order to convert the “information” given by India into legally acceptable “evidence,” the FIA team be given access to the Mumbai sites where the attacks took place.
Mr. Rehman parried a question whether the crackdown meant that the government now accepted the Indian allegation that the LeT was involved in the Mumbai attacks.
Responding to the same question separately, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said that “as for the LeT or any other group, the subject is presently under probe/inquiry by our concerned authorities.” He dubbed as “most unfortunate” recent remarks by Home Minister P. Chidambaram that India could sever trade and transport links.
“Pakistan continues to make every effort to defuse tensions in South Asia and has repeatedly stated that it is prepared to extend its cooperation to the Indian government concerning the Mumbai incident,” he said.
What say? Any word of what is hot in Pakistan about this?
Admin Edit: No training camps exist. The above news is a made up storie by the Hindu authors.
Five training camps shut down: Pakistan
Nirupama Subramanian
Over 100 people held or kept under surveillance
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Thursday that it had shut down five training camps and detained or kept under surveillance over a hundred people linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba/Jamat-ud-Dawah in connection with the Mumbai attacks. It was also setting up a team of its Federal Investigation Agency to probe the incident.
The government, however, said it needed more information from India to proceed with investigations, including access to the site of the terror attacks, and reiterated the offer of a joint probe.
The FIA team will comprise Additional Director-General Javed Iqbal; the head of the Special Investigation Group of the FIA’s anti-terror unit, Khalid Qureshi; and a director in the agency Liaquat Ali Khan, reports said.
In the first official statement about actions taken by Pakistan since the Mumbai attack, Rehman Malik, who heads the Interior Ministry, listed them out: 20 offices of the JuD shut down, as well as 87 schools linked to it, two libraries, seven seminaries and seven websites.
Also shut down are eight disaster relief camps run by the JuD, and five “training camps,” the first time Pakistan has officially acknowledged the existence of such camps.
But Mr. Malik said there was no sign of any training activity at these camps. He did not specify if the JuD’s Muridke headquarters had been sealed. He also left the number of individuals detained unclear.
At first he said 124 “top and mid-level” leaders had been detained, including Hafiz Mohammed Saaed, the head of the JuD, Mufti Abdulrehman, Col. (retd.) Nazir Ahmed, Amir Hamza and Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.
When asked about Zarar Shah, an LeT operative who is said to have played a key role in the attacks, Mr. Malik, without answering the question, said 71 people had been detained, and 125 kept under surveillance “since the last six months.”
Pakistan was “fully committed” to helping India with the investigations into the Mumbai attacks, he said.
He made an appeal to “counterparts” in India that in order to convert the “information” given by India into legally acceptable “evidence,” the FIA team be given access to the Mumbai sites where the attacks took place.
Mr. Rehman parried a question whether the crackdown meant that the government now accepted the Indian allegation that the LeT was involved in the Mumbai attacks.
Responding to the same question separately, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said that “as for the LeT or any other group, the subject is presently under probe/inquiry by our concerned authorities.” He dubbed as “most unfortunate” recent remarks by Home Minister P. Chidambaram that India could sever trade and transport links.
“Pakistan continues to make every effort to defuse tensions in South Asia and has repeatedly stated that it is prepared to extend its cooperation to the Indian government concerning the Mumbai incident,” he said.
What say? Any word of what is hot in Pakistan about this?
Admin Edit: No training camps exist. The above news is a made up storie by the Hindu authors.
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