Well, here's what bothers me about this whole thing.
According to the Pakistani government:
- India blamed Pakistan right away (expected); Pakistan immediately offered to help in the investigation, but India rejected the offer.
- the evidence to Pakistan was initially submitted in marathi.
- eventually the translated evidence was submitted, but piecemeal.
- final evidence was not submitted several months after.
Now either the Pakistani government is lying about all this, or the Indian authorities have been dragging their feet. I don't know who is telling the truth, but I don't see a motive for Pakistan to keep prolonging this matter. It hurts Pakistan internationally and in bilateral talks with India.
So, I feel there is something fishy going on here.
Develpereo......although I feel that your above "doubts" do not really qualify as evidence of India trying to cover its deeds, however if thats what you're implying, then please read below for the outlook from the Indian side:
1. In India and Pakistan mudslinging is very common, and pointing fingers at Pakistan immediately was rather wrong, however you have to understand that the whole nation had become quite intense and emotional over the incident. It is only expected that you first blame the country that is your long standing enemy and has supported such actions in the past.....
However I can understand your concern if the accusations were proven wrong, but they werent....so I dont see why thats fishy?
Secondly, why would we hold a joint investigation with Pak? When you suspect the involvement of a country with a massacre such as 26/11, you dont just hand over key evidence to the one that you're acccusing.....That would be rather stupid dont u think??
By providing you with the evidence, and involving Pak agencies, we would give you guys a chance to cover your arses and get rid of any trails etc........
2. Marathi is the local language of Maharashtra and Mumbai. All legal documents are prepared in sets of 3, Hindi, Marathi and English. Not all members of our armed forces, administration etc are well versed with English.....hence the documentation had a Marathi version as well.....Which was irresponsibly sent to Pak as a Dossier....
Now I completely agree with you that this is a sign of complete inefficiency by the Indian agencies, but no how does it imply that India was trying to cover up something......
Please tell me what made you think this was an attempt to cover up?
3. As far as In remember, the translated version was given as a whole and not in parts. I havent read any reports on that, so any article or story would be helpful.
4. The actual evidence is something one bases their case on. It needs to be protected and analyzed thoroughly before it is sent to the party that is being accused. India needed time to build its case, make all accusations thorough and involve neutral 3rd parties to verify the claim it made. Plus providing the evidence to Pak right away would only give them a heads up and try to botch leads or give key involved members to escape from Pak before action could be taken, thus allowing Pak to wash their hands of the entire matter.....
If Im not mistaken, Pak claims that one of the accused is not in Pak, but India says otherwise.....I dont care about who's right or wrong, but this is an example of the above.....
Now let me ask, if the govt. of Pakistan has accepted the claims made by India.....
Why are you in denial??? Is this a shocking revelation that there is militancy in Pakistan??
Accept that Pakistani soil was used to plan an attack on India and move on.......Denial and conspiracy theories floated by some members here just make the whole incident seem like a joke and lives lost trivial......
Trust me, Indians wont take this lightly!!!
