Mumbai terror attacks: Pakistan fails to mention Hafiz Saeed’s name in 26/11 chargesheet

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, July 26, 2014: India on Friday lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over the lack of progress in the trial of Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

It is, however, quite another fact that Islamabad had five years ago clearly signalled its intention to not go after Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, the man New Delhi says masterminded the terrorist outrage. A chargesheet filed by Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency, accessed by Mail Today, names Lakhvi, the operational commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba, as the "mastermind of the Mumbai terrorist attack" while glossing over the alleged role of Saeed despite considerable evidence gathered by Indian and Western security agencies over his role in the incident.

The FIA chargesheet names the attackers, details their training and acquisition of supplies and firearms, and goes on to describe the attack in detail, even naming dozens of the victims. The Pakistan document is thus not significantly different from what India says happened-except that it gives Saeed a complete miss.

The chargesheet filed by the FIA in the anti-terrorism court on November 25, 2009 has nothing on Saeed even though Ajmal Kasab-the lone attacker who was captured alive-confessed that the LeT founder visited the 10 terrorists in Karachi and saw them off before they set sail for Mumbai in November 2008. The chargesheet states that the seven accused-Lakhvi, Hammad Amin Sadiq, Mazhar Iqbal alias Abu al-Qama, Abdul Wajid alias Zarrar Shah, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Jamil Ahmad and Younas Anjum-and 20 others set up training camps at Yousuf Goth in Karachi and at Mirpur Sakro in Thatta in Sindh province and obtained firearms, grenades and explosives for carrying out the attacks.


Courtesy: NDTV