India on Thursday dismissed Pakistan’s updated list of wanted high-profile terrorists, which includes 19 suspects linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, saying the document “flagrantly omits the mastermind and key conspirators” of the carnage at the financial center.
The list of wanted terrorists, published on the website of the Pakistan Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), primarily names the crew members of two ships used by the attackers to travel to Mumbai and those who helped finance the attacks through transfers. of money. Most of the 19 men are members of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava noted that there were media reports in Pakistan of the FIA’s release of an updated list of the most wanted and high-profile terrorists that included “various Pakistani nationals involved in the Bombay terrorist attacks on 11/26 “.
While the list includes a select few members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a UN-designated terrorist entity based in Pakistan, including the crew members of the ships used to carry out the 11/26 attacks, it flagrantly omits to the mastermind and key conspirators in the heinous terrorist attack, ”he told a weekly news conference.
India has accused LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, who is currently in jail in Lahore after being convicted of terrorist financing, of plotting the Mumbai attacks. Pakistan has repeatedly claimed that it has found no evidence linking Saeed to the November 2008 attacks.
Srivastava noted that the Mumbai terror attacks were “planned, executed and launched from the territory of Pakistan” and said: “The list makes it clear that Pakistan possesses all the necessary information and evidence on the conspirators and facilitators of the Mumbai terror attacks. based in Pakistan. ” . ”
The Indian government has “repeatedly called on the Pakistani government to abandon its tactics of concealment and procrastination to meet its international obligations in the Mumbai terror attacks trial,” he added.
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Several other countries have called on Pakistan to “quickly bring the perpetrators of the vile terror attacks to justice,” Srivastava said.
It is a “cause for grave concern that, despite its own public recognition, as well as the availability of all necessary evidence, including that shared by India, Pakistan has still not shown sincerity in delivering justice to the families of 166 victims from 15 countries. … even as we approach the 12th anniversary of the 11/26 attacks, ”he said.
Pakistan arrested seven men, including LeT operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, for planning, financing and supporting the attacks. Lakhvi was released on bail in 2015 and his current whereabouts are unknown. There has been no progress in the trial of the seven men in a counterterrorism court despite testimony from dozens of officials and witnesses and information shared by India and the United States.
The 19 men named in connection with the Mumbai attacks on the updated list of high-profile terrorists wanted by the FIA include Muhammad Amjad Khan, a LeT member who bought the Al Fouz ship and other equipment used in the attacks, Iftikhar Ali , a LeT member who paid for a VoIP connection used by the attackers, and Shahid Ghafoor, a LeT member who was captain of the Al Hussaini and Al Fouz ships that were used by the attackers.
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The list also includes Abdul Rahman, Muhammad Usman, Ateeq-ur-Rehman, Riaz Ahmad, Muhammad Mushtaq, Muhammad Naeem, Abdul Shakoor, Muhammad Sabir Salfi, Muhammad Usman and Shakil Ahmad (all LeT operatives who were members of the crew of the two ships), Muhammad Usman Zia, Muhammad Abbas Nasir, Javed Iqbal, Mukhtar Ahmed and Ahmed Saeed (all LeT members who helped finance the attacks), and Muhammad Khan, a LeT member who provided the Al Hussaini ship.
The updated list has a total of 1,210 terrorists wanted for various crimes and attacks.
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