Click to play videoNew Delhi: A day after it banned 25 terrorist outfits - including the Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jamat-ud-Dawa - Pakistan on Thursday got the Interpol to sound a global alert for 13 terror suspects wanted in the November 26 Mumbai attacks case.
While the names of the suspects were not made public, Interpol confirmed it had circulated the list to all its 186 members.
However, sources say Islamabad is trying to wash its hands off any further action on the 26/11 perpetrators and the reference to Interpol is clearly intended to signal that the suspects were not in Pakistan.
“We want action from Pakistan on two counts, one is the action against the perpetrators of 26/11, another is dismantling terror infrastructure on their soil that targets us. The Interpol notice is a step in the first requirement,” said MoS, External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor.
Earlier, there was more Pakistani stonewalling on Lashkar chief Hafiz Saeed.
Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Abdul Basit, said in a statement, "We are proceeding in accordance with our laws, and it also needs to be underlined that we have received dossiers and information material from India, but the material contained in that dossier apropos Hafiz Saeed is not really enough and that doesn't really strengthen our hands to proceed legally as has been expected”.
Diplomatic sources told CNN-IBN that evidence on Saeed had been provided in five separate dossiers which included:
- The police confession of Ajmal Kasab - where he names Saeed as having visited his terror training camp
- Confessions of co-accused Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin also naming Saeed
- The UN Security ban on Saeed and the Jamaat-ud-Dawa after the Mumbai attacks
- His habitual and public anti-India speeches that purportedly instigated terror
The sources warned that Pakistan has been consistently trying to firewall Hafiz Saeed from any legal action and Thursday’s developments underscore that the Lashkar chief cannot be touched.
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