The Hindu’s website has a dossier of evidence on the Mumbai terror attacks as put together by the investigating agencies. I guess this is the same dossier that has been handed over to Pakistan, which the latter rubbished even before reading. One thing is clear from a preliminary reading of the dossier. It is that the Indian investigative agencies have collected and shared with the Government of Pakistan multiple pieces of evidence which implicates terror outfits operating from that country.
From here, it becomes a technicality. India can argue (and it is) that these terrorist groups have the support of the official apparatus in Pakistan. Whereas Pakistan can claim (and it is) that these groups receive no official support, and that they are as much a threat to its own people as they are to India. Pakistan can broaden its defense by claiming that India is playing guilt by association: that is, the items shown in the exhibits could have been made in Pakistan, but that cannot implicate the Pakistani Government. What other evidence would convince them, one wonders. Maybe, a letter found on Kasab’s person, that was signed by the Prime Minister and his entire cabinet?
This reaction is predictable, and even if it taken as true, it is reflective of the Pakistani Government’s lack of will to pursue these terrorists. In a recent interview with NDTV’s Prannoy Roy, Ms. Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s Information Minister, when asked why the Government is not doing enough to nab these terrorists, responded “Well, they are not walking outside my office so we could nab them.” Wow, what an intelligent response!
And I see this kind of rhetoric continuing because India’s foreign policy has generally been one of non-aggression, while Pakistan’s internal policy has been that of collusion.
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