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India says all options open to dismantle terror groups
Reuters - 37 minutes ago
By Nigam Prusty
NEW DELHI - India said Wednesday it would keep all options open to dismantle "terror outfits" after the Mumbai attacks, raising the rhetoric against its neighbour after New Delhi released evidence blaming Pakistan militants.
In Islamabad a Pakistani government minister said the lone surviving gunman captured after November's attacks had links to Pakistan. Pakistani media, citing unidentified officials, reported earlier the gunman was Pakistani.
"I say we are keeping all options open," Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told Times Now television. Only hours earlier Defence Minister A.K. Antony had made similar comments.
The latest statements come as Indian officials show increasing frustration at what they see as Pakistan's unwillingness to fully investigate the attacks in November by 10 gunmen that killed 179 people.
The Hindu newspaper published details from India's dossier of evidence Wednesday, including what it said were transcripts of conversations between handlers and the gunmen during the attack.
"Everything is being recorded by the media. Inflict the maximum damage. Keep fighting. Don't be taken alive," one handler identified as Kafa told a gunman, the newspaper said.
"Kill all hostages, except the two Muslims. Keep your phone switched on so that we can hear the gunfire," a caller said.
The dossier has also been sent to countries whose citizens were victims of the attacks, such as the United States, as India tried to corner Pakistan diplomatically into bringing the perpetrators to justice.
David Mulford, the U.S. Ambassador to India, said on Wednesday the evidence India had provided was "credible."
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stepped up a war of words Tuesday, saying for the first time the assault "must have had the support of some official agencies in Pakistan."
Singh may be playing to a domestic audience before general elections this year. The Samajwadi Party, a key Indian government coalition partner, reportedly threatened to withdraw its support because of what it said was India's soft stance on Pakistan.
Pakistan has denied any involvement by state agencies and rejected Singh's accusation, saying India was ratcheting up tension and risked destroying all prospects of a serious and objective investigation.
The nuclear-armed rivals have fought three wars since 1947.
WHIPPING UP TENSION
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Pakistan had made constructive proposals for cooperation and initiated its own investigation but India was unnecessarily whipping up tension.
"Our own investigations into Mumbai have progressed," Gilani said. "We are prepared to take this process forward with a view to uncovering full facts thus ensuring that the perpetrators of this heinous crime whosoever they may be are brought to justice."
"India has not only refused to cooperate in the investigations pertaining to Mumbai but has chosen to undertake a media and diplomatic offensive against Pakistan," he said.
Pakistan's Dawn News television, citing unidentified officials commenting on the preliminary investigation, said the lone surviving gunman captured after the attacks, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, was Pakistani.
Information Minister Sherry Rehman did not confirm that, but told Reuters: "He has links to Pakistan but the investigation is ongoing."
The Indian foreign ministry had no immediate reaction to Rehman's comment. India has been saying for weeks Kasab is Pakistani. Pakistan had earlier said it could not find his name on a national database of citizens and it was investigating.
A similar attack on India's parliament in 2001 nearly sparked another war after a massive build-up of forces on their border.
There has been no such troop build-up this time although Pakistan last month cancelled army leave and said it had moved limited numbers of troops off the Afghan border, where it is battling al Qaeda and Taliban militants, for defensive purposes.
Any movement of Pakistani troops off its western border will alarm the United States and other countries with troops in Afghanistan who are depending on Pakistan to disrupt militant supply networks and infiltration into Afghanistan.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told a news conference in Kabul Wednesday Pakistan did not want war but every Pakistani would fight back if India attacked.
"But we do not want a war, no sane person wants war," Qureshi said.
"The western border is very important ... we want troops in large numbers on the western border and we want to remain engaged on the western border and we will do so," he said. "There is no question of moving away from the western border."
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