Mumbai Attacks: Pakistan Army, ISI & Musharraf

While the Pakistan’s former president/military dictator Pervez Musharraf is now in a virtual exile in London, the country’s Supreme Court has asked Musharraf to return and “explain his action of imposing Emergency in 2007 and sacking of 60 judges, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhary,” who has now been reinstated. (See here…)

Meanwhile a British Muslim politician, Lord Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham, has announced that he will move a London court against Musharraf for the latter’s alleged “war crimes”.

The News of Pakistan reports that “some of the legal minds involved in pursuing the case against Musharraf will be those who had experience in preparing charges against Chilean army general Augusto Pinochet and had him arrested.” More here…

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A highly controversial book “Investigating the Mumbai Conspiracy” was released recently, and it categorically states: “The 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks were first conceived on the third floor of (Pakistan’s spy agency) Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters at the Zero Point in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, overseeing a shadowy empire of spies and jehadis which today poses a greater threat to global security than the al-Qaeda.

“The book makes sensational claims – that the Mumbai terror attack was planned and executed by the Pakistan Army and its different agencies including the Inter Services Intelligence and the Special Services Group (SSG) and that the Pakistani Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani was not only in the know of the attack but had planned every detail of the assault with his close confidants in the Pakistan Army’s top leadership.

“The book claims that the Pakistan army top brass including former President General (retd) Pervez Musharraf had been playing one of the deadliest games in recent history to provoke a disastrous war among the two nuclear armed nations.

“Containing documents like the Mumbai charge sheet confessional statements of the lone surviving attacker Ajmal Amir Kasab and other details, the book lays bare the tale of the Mumbai attacks and warns of the coming wave of terrorist assaults on India from across the border in Pakistan.

“The thrilling book has hit the news stands at a time when Pakistan has handed over a 36-page fresh dossier on its probe into the Mumbai terror attacks to New Delhi, giving an update on the investigations.

“The dossier confirms what India has been insisting all along – top operatives of Lashkar-e-Toiba were responsible for carrying out the Mumbai terror attacks.

“This is the first official admission from Pakistan that its citizens were involved in the November 26, 2008 terror attacks. The deadly assault was carried out with by ten heavily armed jehadis who came via ship and boats from Pakistan and held India hostage in Mumbai for over 60 hours.” More here…

The NYT has a story under the heading “Terror Ties Run Deep in Pakistan, Mumbai Case Shows.” See here…

Time magazine says: “Pakistan is not betting on a U.S. victory in Afghanistan, nor is it going out of its way to help achieve one.

“Instead, say analysts and former top officials in Islamabad, Pakistan views the conflict in Afghanistan through the lens of its own national interests and its conflict with India — and it will act accordingly, prioritizing securing its own interests in Afghanistan’s future.

“And that could be bad news for a U.S.-led military campaign that depends on Pakistan’s help for thwarting the Afghan insurgency.” More here…

Meanwhile The Christian Science Monitor reports: “Pakistani Navy officials warn the (Indian) nuclear submarine, launched on Sunday, could spark an arms race. Two weeks ago the countries agreed to peace talks.”