Pakistan’s Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik has said on Thursday that the government will come up with its preliminary reports to the Indian dossier on Mumbai attacks in next two to three days.
The report will be shared with India and rest of the world when it is made public, Malik told Dawn news channel but refused to divulge any findings of a Special Investigation Group of three members.
Earlier, the reports published in the Pakistani media said, the Special Investigation Group had made considerable advancement and was also examining how the material provided by New Delhi could stand up in the anti-terror courts. The Group was also trying to link the identity of suspects in the Mumbai strikes. Pakistan’s laws do not cover crimes committed by its nationals outside the country.
The investigating team were probing according to the information provided by Indian government to the Pakistani authorities. On January 17, Malik had asked the investigation team to submit its preliminary findings in 10 days. The deadline lasted on Tuesday (Jan 27) and Malik further said the findings would be shared with India on Jan 29. Pakistani President Zardari, however, reportedly said on Wednesday the probe findings will be shared with India in next two to three days.
But now Islamabad seems to have taken a sudden U-turn if Pakistani media report is to be believed. Pakistan seems to declare that no group or organisation based in the country executed the Mumbai attacks.
As per the Agency report, sources in Islamabad told Dawn news channel that investigation team had completed the initial probe into the dossier handed over by New Delhi on January 5, and discovered that there were no leads found in Pakistan and the attack was orchestrated outside Pakistan.
Citing sources, channel reported, the investigators examined the content of information dossier minutely and came to the conclusion that 26/11 attacks on Mumbai had no connections anywhere in Pakistan. The report submitted to the interior ministry though did not mention where the attacks were coordinated.
So far Pakistan has made many public statements saying Pakistan does not support terrorism and is committed to war against terrorism, and is willing to bring perpetrators to justice. Pakistani leaders has been maintaining that Mumbai attackers if found guilty will be punished in Pakistan according to the country’s law, and will not be handed over to India.
Earlier this week though Pakistani Prime Minister Gilani had hinted that extradition of the terror suspects to India was possible if bilateral relations were normalised, but taking into consideration Pakistan’s flip-flop since the Mumbai attacks, Gilani’s statement does not hold any weightage.
And now in the light of preliminary report’s findings (though not officially declared yet) question is quite natural to rise on Pakistan’s commitment to fair probe into the Mumbai attack when the Indian investigating agency, FBI, and other world investigating agencies have been evidently saying the perpetrators were Pakistani and their handlers operated from Pakistani soil.
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