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India has 'proof' of Pakistan role in Mumbai attacks
AFP - Sunday, March 22
NEW DELHI (AFP) - - India's government says it has "overwhelming evidence" that "official agencies" of Pakistan were involved in the Islamist militant attacks on Mumbai that left 165 people dead.
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Home Minister P. Chidambaram also accused Pakistan in a TV interview to be aired Sunday of doing nothing to dismantle "the infrastructure of terrorism" on its soil amid heightened tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
"Given the overwhelming evidence we have, I am entitled to presume that official agencies (of Pakistan) were involved (in the attacks)," he said, referring to such Pakistani institutions as its spy agency and army.
Chidambaram, who gave no details of the Indian evidence, added the threat faced by India from Pakistan-based militants remained virtually undiminished since the attacks last November that killed 165 people.
There was no reaction from Pakistan to the statements, which came as the Indian army said one of its soldiers was wounded on Saturday when Pakistani troops engaged in "unprovoked" firing at its positions across the de facto border dividing Kashmir between the rivals.
The five hours of firing snapped five months of relative calm along the heavily militarised frontier known as the Line of Control.
Pakistan accused Indian troops of "unprovoked" firing and said it had lodged a "strong protest" with Indian authorities.
India has in the past accused the Pakistani army of providing covering fire for militants infiltrating into Indian-administered Kashmir where a deadly insurgency has been waged against New Delhi's rule since 1989.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars, two over disputed Muslim-majority Kashmir.
Chidambaram's comments were the latest in a barrage of Indian criticism of Pakistan since the Mumbai attacks, reflecting New Delhi's anger over what it sees as Islamabad's laxness in taking strong action against the plotters.
Security has emerged as a top issue in general elections to be held from April 16 to May 13.
Indian media have reported senior politicians, including Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, could be on a militant hit-list.
Asked if Pakistan had dismantled militant infrastructure on its turf, Chidambaram told India's CNN-IBN network that "none" of the militant training camps had been destroyed "to the best of my knowledge".
The Pakistanis were only breaking up "training camps that mushroom in villages with 'kutcha' (temporary) structures" and "can be dismantled and erected elsewhere," he said.
"They (Pakistan) are still attempting to infiltrate people across the border and across the Line of Control (which divides disputed Kashmir), he added.
"Therefore, we've put our (security) forces on a high alert between now and the elections."
India said last week it had given Pakistan more details on the attacks and it was now time for Islamabad to take swift action against the planners of the attack by 10 gunmen on India's financial capital.
One of the assailants was captured during the three-day siege and is facing trial in Mumbai.
India has accused the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, which has had close ties with Pakistani intelligence agencies in the past, of staging the attacks that have soured a peace process between the two nations.
Both the LeT and Pakistan have denied involvement, although Islamabad has admitted the attacks were planned partly in Pakistan and filed a case against eight suspects.
Chidambaram said India would "apply pressure" and "use coercive diplomacy" to ensure those guilty were brought to trial even if Pakistan, racked by political instability, has "neither the time nor the inclination."
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