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Dec 10th, 2008 | MUMBAI, India -- India has demanded that the U.N. Security Council declare a Pakistan-based Islamic charity a terrorist group, saying it was a front for the militant organization it accuses of being behind the attacks on Mumbai.
India's appeal, made late Tuesday, came as Pakistan acknowledged the arrests of two men reportedly wanted by India in connection with the attacks and as the United states said it was sending a top diplomat to New Delhi to discuss fallout from the violence and Pakistan's response.
In a speech, E. Ahamed, India's junior foreign minister, called on the U.N. to ban the group Jemaat-ud-Dawa, calling it "a terrorist outfit."
India and the United States believe Jemaat-ud-Dawa is a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group that India blames for the Nov. 26-29 assault on its financial capital that killed 171 people.
Jemaat-ud-Dawa -- which sprang up after Pakistan banned Lashkar in 2002 following U.S. pressure -- runs a chain of schools and medical clinics throughout the country and has helped survivors of two deadly earthquakes in recent years. It denies any links to Lashkar.
"The organizers, financiers and logistical providers of these terrorist attacks have to be punished," Ahamed said. "Those who give ideological and moral support to this evil phenomenon must also be brought to justice."
He called on Pakistan to take "urgent steps to stop their functioning."
On Wednesday, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told reporters that two of the top Lashkar men reportedly wanted by India, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, were in Pakistani custody and being investigated.
It was the first official confirmation by Pakistan that Lakhvi was under arrest. Officials have said Lakhvi was arrested Sunday in a raid on a militant camp close to the Indian border.
Also Wednesday, a U.S. official said Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was expected in New Delhi later this week, strengthening American involvement in the region in the wake of the attacks. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited New Delhi and Islamabad last week.
The diplomatic maneuvering came a day after police released the names and photographs of the militants who staged the bloody three-day siege of Mumbai and said they uncovered new details about the gunmen -- including hometowns in Pakistan.
The new information, if confirmed, would bolster India's claim that the attack was launched from Pakistan.
Mumbai's chief police investigator, Rakesh Maria, showed photographs of eight of the nine slain attackers -- some from identity cards, but three were gruesome pictures of maimed faces. The body of the ninth was too badly burned, he said. The 10th gunman, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, was captured alive.
Maria said all 10 attackers were from Pakistan and between the ages of 20 and 28. He did not say how police knew their hometowns, although they have been interrogating the surviving gunman.
In Russia, meanwhile, the head of that country's federal anti-narcotics agency said India's most famous gangster, Dawood Ibrahim, had helped in the attack.
"The information that has been received indicates that the well-known drug trafficker Dawood Ibrahim provided his logistics network for the preparation and implementation of the attacks," the government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta quoted Viktor Ivanov as saying.
Ibrahim, who India says fled to Pakistan after staging a series of Mumbai bombings in 1993, has been accused by Indian police of involvement in the drug trade.
As is often the case when Russian law enforcement officials talk about terrorism, Ivanov gave no details and provided no actual evidence.
India asks UN to ban Paksitani group - Salon.com
India's appeal, made late Tuesday, came as Pakistan acknowledged the arrests of two men reportedly wanted by India in connection with the attacks and as the United states said it was sending a top diplomat to New Delhi to discuss fallout from the violence and Pakistan's response.
In a speech, E. Ahamed, India's junior foreign minister, called on the U.N. to ban the group Jemaat-ud-Dawa, calling it "a terrorist outfit."
India and the United States believe Jemaat-ud-Dawa is a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group that India blames for the Nov. 26-29 assault on its financial capital that killed 171 people.
Jemaat-ud-Dawa -- which sprang up after Pakistan banned Lashkar in 2002 following U.S. pressure -- runs a chain of schools and medical clinics throughout the country and has helped survivors of two deadly earthquakes in recent years. It denies any links to Lashkar.
"The organizers, financiers and logistical providers of these terrorist attacks have to be punished," Ahamed said. "Those who give ideological and moral support to this evil phenomenon must also be brought to justice."
He called on Pakistan to take "urgent steps to stop their functioning."
On Wednesday, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told reporters that two of the top Lashkar men reportedly wanted by India, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, were in Pakistani custody and being investigated.
It was the first official confirmation by Pakistan that Lakhvi was under arrest. Officials have said Lakhvi was arrested Sunday in a raid on a militant camp close to the Indian border.
Also Wednesday, a U.S. official said Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was expected in New Delhi later this week, strengthening American involvement in the region in the wake of the attacks. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited New Delhi and Islamabad last week.
The diplomatic maneuvering came a day after police released the names and photographs of the militants who staged the bloody three-day siege of Mumbai and said they uncovered new details about the gunmen -- including hometowns in Pakistan.
The new information, if confirmed, would bolster India's claim that the attack was launched from Pakistan.
Mumbai's chief police investigator, Rakesh Maria, showed photographs of eight of the nine slain attackers -- some from identity cards, but three were gruesome pictures of maimed faces. The body of the ninth was too badly burned, he said. The 10th gunman, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, was captured alive.
Maria said all 10 attackers were from Pakistan and between the ages of 20 and 28. He did not say how police knew their hometowns, although they have been interrogating the surviving gunman.
In Russia, meanwhile, the head of that country's federal anti-narcotics agency said India's most famous gangster, Dawood Ibrahim, had helped in the attack.
"The information that has been received indicates that the well-known drug trafficker Dawood Ibrahim provided his logistics network for the preparation and implementation of the attacks," the government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta quoted Viktor Ivanov as saying.
Ibrahim, who India says fled to Pakistan after staging a series of Mumbai bombings in 1993, has been accused by Indian police of involvement in the drug trade.
As is often the case when Russian law enforcement officials talk about terrorism, Ivanov gave no details and provided no actual evidence.
India asks UN to ban Paksitani group - Salon.com
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