[Reader-list] India could have fabricated evidence of Mumbai Terror Attack- Pak Diplomat

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Looks like the Pakistanis continue to play the "Terror Game" at different levels and in different forms. 
 
The 'Bad Cop, Good Cop' routine is used by investigators against crime suspects. Here the crime suspects (Pakistanis) are using it against the investigators and the investigations.
 
First the Pakistan High Commissioner in UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan "indicates" that Pakistan does not accept the evidence dossier sent by India to it and that it "could be fabricated".
 
That is followed by Pakistan's PM Gilani saying that the evidence was still being investigated and even he did not have details of the probe. Gilani says about Hasan's pronouncements "He can't comment at the moment when the prime minister can't comment,"
 
Will Gilani sack Hasan?
 
In an exactly similar situation, Gilani had earlier sacked the National Security Advisor Mahmud Ali Durrani when he confirmed that Ajmal Kasab the lone surviving terrorist of the 27/11 Mumbai Terror Attack was a Pakistani. In doing so, Durrani pre-empted any official statement from Pakistan.
 
Gilani was then quoted saying that Durrani "had made unauthorised comments to the media". Gilani' office had issued a statement that Durrani was sacked for his "irresponsible behaviour for not taking the prime minister and other stakeholders into confidence, and a lack of coordination on matters of national security,"
 
Will Gilani sack  Wajid Shamsul Hasan this time.
 
Kshmendra
 
 
"Diplomat: Mumbai attack not planned in Pakistan" 
Friday January 30, 2009
 
 
NEW DELHI (AP) ” A senior Pakistani diplomat said the Mumbai attacks were not planned in Pakistan and suggested Friday that India's evidence linking Pakistan-based militants to the deadly siege could be fabricated. 
 
The comments from Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakistan's high commissioner to Britain, were the first from a senior Pakistani official since India handed over a dossier of evidence earlier this month that New Delhi said proved the November siege that left 164 dead had been plotted from Pakistan. 
 
"Pakistani territory was not used so far as the investigators have made their conclusions," Hasan told India's NDTV news channel in an interview. "It could have been some other place." 
 
Hours later, however, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Gilani, who is in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum, said Hasan had spoken too soon and that his government was not ready to comment on the dossier. 
 
India's package of evidence included details from extensive interrogations of the lone surviving gunman and information gleaned from satellite phones used by the attackers, as well as details of weapons recovered and supplies used. 
 
Hasan indicated that Islamabad did not accept the evidence. 
 
"Well, it could be fabricated," he said. Referring to India, he added, "You took 45 days to give that sort of evidence although you started blaming Pakistan from day one." 
 
But Gilani later told NDTV that the evidence was still being investigated by Pakistan's Interior Ministry and even he did not have details of that probe yet. 
 
"He can't comment at the moment when the prime minister can't comment," he said of Hasan's interview. "Very soon we'll come back to the world whatever the findings are, " he added. 
 
A spokeswoman for Hasan said Friday that he had no further comment beyond what he said to NDTV. She spoke on condition of anonymity, citing policy. 
 
In New Delhi, Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee responded angrily to Hasan's comments. 
 
"We have not received any information from Pakistani authorities through proper channels," he told reporters. "This is not the way a government can respond." 
 
Since the attacks across India's financial capital, New Delhi has said that it expects Islamabad to crack down on the terrorist network it says operates across the border and to help prosecute anyone involved in the Mumbai 
 
Hasan said he was confident the international community would accept Pakistan's findings. 
 
"We are not going to do any whitewashing business. We believe in going after facts. Our findings will be acceptable to the world," he said. "We will try to satisfy India with our findings. We are addressing the concerns of the world, not just India." 
 
Pakistan has arrested several senior members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group India blames for the attack, but says it will try any suspects in Pakistani courts. Authorities have also moved against a charity that India and others say is a front for Lashkar. 
 
Pakistani authorities have acknowledged that Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only gunmen among the 10 militant to survive the siege, is from Pakistan. 
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Associated Press writer Jennifer Quinn contributed to this report from London.
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-8335165,00.html