Click to play videoNew Delhi: Pakistan's official position is that it is investigating its Mumbai terror links and will take action against those found guilty, but given the reports of confessions by top Lashkar commanders, is Pakistan buying time to cover up a murky terror trail that leads to its soil?
Some feel that Pakistan may use its investigation to say the Mumbai terrorists were acting on their own, and not with the ISI. Another concern is that the Jamaat-ud-Dawa will resurface under another name.
Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon has warned that those responsible for the Mumbai attacks must face the Indian judicial system.
In a radio interview, he said Pakistan must guarantee no further terror attacks on India from its soil. But Islamabad appears to be on another track.
According to the New York Times, the confessions of Lashkar operatives Zarrar Shah and Zakiur Rahman maybe used to absolve the ISI and other agencies of any blame.
The report in the New York Times says the Mumbai attackers were not part of a conspiracy carried out with the spy agency ISI, but that the terrorists were operating on their own and outside the control of government agents.
The US wants to send an FBI team to question them but Pakistan is going slow on that, presumably because both would have valuable information about Lashkar's links with the ISI.
The impression is that Pakistan is trying to muddy the trail and cover up wherever possible. A case in point is the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa which is reportedly readying for another name change to Tehreek-e-Rahmat-e-Rasool.
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