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Dec 04, 2008 at 20:06

ISI hand in Mumbai attack: India has proof

New Delhi: India has evidence that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s external espionage agency, was involved in planning the Mumbai terror attack and training the terrorists who carried it out, sources said on Thursday.

The Indian government has the names of trainers and the places where training for the Mumbai attack took place, sources said.

The United States is believed to have even more evidence of the training and some of this has been shared with India, they said.

Mullen, chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike, who was in Islamabad on Wednesday, is believed to have told his Pakistani interlocutors that Washington had enough evidence to show a Pakistani hand in the attack, the sources said.

Sources say the Pakistan’s civilian government was not involved in the attack and in fact may be a target of the strike.

Washington has asked Pakistan to crackdown on Lashkar-e-Toiba, which now goes under the name of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, and to arrest its chief Hafeez Mohd Saeed because it has evidence of their involvement in the attack, the sources said.

The attack was planned, equipped and organised in Pakistan where the terrorists were trained and provided logistical support.

Contrary to the version that the terrorists used a hijacked Indian fishing boat to reach Mumbai after sailing from Karachi, the view here is that much more sophisticated means were used.