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  • Attempt to bring perpetrators of 26/11 has not moved an inch in Pak: Pillai

    Published on January 17, 2011

    India today said attempt to bring the guilty in Mumbai attacks to justice has not moved an inch in Pakistan. Home Secretary G K Pillai said in New Delhi that no real investigation has taken place in Pakistan and the prosecution attempt in that country to bring the 26/11 guilty to justice has not made any progress. Mr Pillai also said India’s request for providing the voice samples of the handlers of the attackers has fallen on deaf ears.

    The Home Secretarty expressed hope that country will learn from New Delhi’s fair handling of the Samjhauta Express blast case and punish the perpetrators of the 26/11 carnage. He said no key person, who was actually involved in the 2008 Mumbai terror strikes or giving directions to the attackers, has been arrested. Mr. Pillai said only second or third-level conspirators were put behind the bars.

    Referring to the investigations in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case in which right wing Hindu activists have been arrested, Mr. Pillai said Indian government was committed to bring to justice anyone who commits terror irrespective of his religion or anything else. He said India will share information on the investigation into the Samjhauta train blast with Pakistan once the probe is over.

    The blast in Samjhauta Express, which runs between India and Pakistan, took place on the night of February 17, 2007 near Panipat in Haryana, leaving 68 people dead, mostly Pakistanis.

    New Delhi had also conveyed to Islamabad that it wants to send a commission to Pakistan to question jailed LeT terrorists, including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, and to get voice samples of the masterminds who were present in the control room directing the attackers.

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