Click to play videoNew Delhi: India confronted Pakistan with more evidence of terror on Wednesday.
CNN-IBN has exclusively learnt that Indian security and intelligence agencies have foiled at least six terror plots after the Mumbai terror attack in November last year. Out of these terror plots, two attacks were averted in Kashmir, one each in Kupwara and Delhi among others.
These attacks were planned by Lashkar-e-Toiba in Pakistan and the evidence has been handed over to Islamabad.
Sources have also confirmed that a fresh dossier of evidence was given to President Asif Ali Zardari by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his Russia visit in June.
This information comes on a day when Zardari finally admitted that militants and extremists were "created and nurtured" in Pakistan for short-term tactical objectives.
Despite the admission, fresh evidence has emerged of Pakistan's complicity in the matter. Thuraya phones (satellite-based mobile telecommunication) have been spoofed and transmitters installed along the Indo-Pak border to erase footprints of the Pakistani state involvement.
“As of now there is not all that much of evidence to indicate that the kind of sponsorship that existed in the past has been withdrawn or not. For us we hope that Pakistan goes in that direction,” expert on Indo-Pak ties TCA Rangachari said.
Meanwhile, the continuing involvement of state actors in perpetrating terror has the Indian side worried. Intelligence sources say of the six attempts foiled, one was to be carried out by Muhammad Umar Madani, a close aide of Lashkar chief Hafeez Muhammad Saeed.
Arrested in June, Madani's brief was to set up modules in different metros in India.
The Kupwara infiltration bid reportedly foiled in March was aimed at sending over 100 terrorists to Kashmir. Out of these, 16 terrorists were reportedly killed.
“Pakistan will have to exhibit readiness to fight terror,” External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said.
Had even one of the six attempts been successful, its ramifications would have been huge. It would have put India and Pakistan on a collision course, but more importantly it could have cost the UPA Government its bid to come to power again.
(For updates you can share with your friends, follow IBNLive on Facebook, Twitter and Google+)
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
|
displayed with permission. Use of the CNN name and/or logo on or as part of CNN-IBN does not derogate from the intellectual property rights of Cable News Network in respect of them.