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However, no specific links had been uncovered yet between terrorists and the Pakistani government, the unnamed official said, according to the 'New York Times'.
"A former Defense Department official said on Wednesday that American intelligence agencies had determined that former officers from Pakistan's Army and its powerful Inter Services Intelligence agency helped train the Mumbai attackers," the paper said.
It, however, did not identify the official, saying he had spoken on condition of anonymity.
The disclosure came as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held meetings with Indian leaders in New Delhi and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met their Pakistani counterparts in Islamabad, in a two-pronged effort to pressure the country to cooperate fully in tracking down the perpetrators of the bloody attacks, the paper said.
Pakistan has refuted Indian allegations that militants operating from its soil were responsible for the deadly attacks, with President Asif Ali Zardari terming them as "non-state actors".
US tells Pak to 'investigate aggressively' Mumbai attack links
The United States has asked Pakistan to "investigate aggressively" all possible links between Pakistani groups and the Mumbai attacks and to take more action against militants across the country.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, asked Pakistan's top leadership to "investigate aggressively any and all possible ties to groups based in Pakistan", the US embassy said in a statement.
While taking note of the recent success of Pakistani security forces in operations against militants on the Afghan border, Mullen "also encouraged Pakistani leaders to take more, and more concerted, action against militant extremists elsewhere in the country", the statement said.
"All agreed that the tragedy in Mumbai represents a dangerous escalation in the sophistication of extremist attacks and an increased threat to the entire region," the statement said.
Mullen, who is on a two-day visit to Pakistan for talks aimed at defusing the tensions with India after the Mumbai attacks, met with President Asif Ali Zardari, Mahmud Ali Durrani, Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security, Gen Tariq Majid, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha.
His visit to Pakistan coincided with a visit to India by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is expected to travel to Islamabad on Thursday.


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Indian intelligence agencies should be given para-military powers and should avenge Mumbai attacks, like Mossad hit squads eliminated Black September terrorists for killing 11 Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972. Criminals hiding in Pak territory should be wiped out by "surgical strikes" in Pak territory. Only then will terrorists realize that attacking India comes at a very dear cost to them and their families, like our PM said, we should raise the cost for terrorists.
Do what Israel would do if this happened to Israel, instead of to India. What would Israel do? they would wipe out the terrorists camps right away, even before they hit their nation, they have the best anti terrorism squads, a small nation surrounded by hostile nations that want to wipe it out of the world. Have you ever heard of an Israeli plane hijacked, I never did, they have one of the best intelligence in the world. Learn from others who know how to deal with this kind of situation, not sure if any of India's leaders know how to handle this. Watching on CNN it seemed that security training is very poor, even the commandos are not trained well and equipped well, they are putting their lives on the line.
I agree to this,in every pakistanian canbe remove our nation.every indians bloods are already fireing this incident.
Nobody in government seems to know what to do next if Pakistan refused to cooperate with India.What is the need for politicians to do anything when common -poor people are ready fodder to die for their country!! Nobody is our enemy..our real enemy is within us whom we choose to rob us!!!!
Mr Varghese has given a very valid point that all the Indians have to think . The people of our country should think and act so that we dont get a government like this atleast the next time?????
Inhuman! How could they press triggers.? Brainwashed and made to hate us for years. The issue is Pakistan is a failed state and like North Korea will affect the world. Only way for us is put soldiers at every vital place, tap all calls and revamp our justice system. We must bring justice to innocent Muslims as well as all those who lost their loved one's. If enemy is out of India we must hit them. Then no one will touch us easily. We as a nation must respect our citizens and then the world will respect us. First step is destroy all training camps in a week and tell our neighbour to come to the table and we will talk and you listen. Step 2 : Put all our ultra nationalists who make anti Muslim statements in jailStep 3: Wake up and slap everyone who asks for bribe. Tell them because of some people as you our blood is corrupted and we are becoming spinelessStep next: Tell our children that we must live and die for this country and defend it with our blood.
Are terrorist trained by Pak Army or they are Pak Army commando's themselves!
Root causes of every thing bad in India:1. We have to first vote out all the dynasty based candidates starting with Nehru family as they started the dynasties in Indian democracy. To keep up dynasty for generations, the politicians become corrupt and use all means o retain power. If there is no dynasty, there is no need to hang on to power by any means.2. Disqualify all parties who divide the people in the name of religion and caste.3. Encourage the moderates of all communities and isolate the extremists.4. As a start, during elections, vote for clean people and do not look at pary symbols for now.
If you wield a stick at a dog, the dog will attack the stick. Try wielding the same stick to a Tiger and the Tiger will attack the person whose wielding it. Pakistan for long has shown this stick of Terrorism to India. It is for India to decide what it wants to become?Its been substantiated time and again that Islamic terrorist organisations in India are backed by Pakistan's ISI, cleansing externally will break the back of such home grown terrorism.
where are the human rights.. they should have a condolance meeting for the TERRORISTS
-Corruption needs to go to eliminate all loopholes in the system-Intelligence reports need to be monitored-Security checks at borders to be extremely stringent-Mobilise NSG like groups in as many places as possible in key places-CCTV monitoring in key areas-Police needs to be better equipped -Educate the common man so that everyone is aware of what is happeningThe above list can go on and on. Bottom line is the managers of the country in thiscase the government should make a serious effort to counter terrorism.If this doesnt happen we might as well stop paying taxes
Why blame pakistan after each blast, we say they are to rein in the terroists operating there, have India managed to rein in even a single group??? we have this D company still operating with impunity in India and what has the government done about it?? nothing at all, inspite of having so many evidence Dawood how come his operations are still flourishing, the fact is that our politicians are sold out and they are the ones to be hunted down and done away with, so start cleansing internaly first and then blame external forces. I salute all the brave personnel who has laid down their life protecting our country but at what cost has any one thought about it, has the media ever thought of informing the public of the activities of the D company never, so GOD SAVE INDIA
The steps needed to prevent future terror attacks 1.Seal our boarders with all neighboring countries including Nepal, because there is chance of using Nepal as an transit point to cross to India by Pak based terrorists. If we can spend billions of money on Mission Moon then why can’t we spend it for protecting our boarders.2.Cancel bus
I wonder what will happen to the case of Lt Prohit and Pragya singh, for now that the ATS chief has been eliminated. We also understand that Lt Prohit had trained some Hindu militant at Bhosle military school to carry out terrorist attacks. Does the govt checking the above links as well to these terrorist attackes carried out in Mumbai.
First the Government of Maharastra along with the backing of the Government of India has to take action against the Under world gangs that are operating in Mumbai eliminate them first.Also eliminate the police officials who are in the payroll of these gangs.The central government has to give the Maharastra Government a very short time frame to do this . Mr Zardari who has been denying of Pakistans involvement in the attack is nothing surprising he is following in the footsteps of all the PREVIOUS LEADERS .The international community has to cooperate and do something to stop this menace once and for all . The whole world knows that Pakistan is the breeding place in the world for terrorists. Zardari is not sinciere in his words and action he cannot be trusted .
why not we think it may be americans interest to instruct pakistan to do this to unstaple indian economy. It is normal practice for americans to do this sort of activity when some friends try to behave on their own and prosper when america is in trouble. This view also possible. Can we discuss further.
Hey,Dont think otherwise it is not a right angle to think at all. They will not do it as we are depending on them for our jobs and most other things and in all the cases they r supporting us...RegardsHarish
beneficiaries of this terror attack would get lot of business for upgrading the entire security appratus loosers of this attack would be both india
Sir,Name of Pakistan is to be changed as "Terroriztan".
If we have the full intelligence where these terrorists camps are located, why not India make a blitzkreig attack into the camps inside Pakistan area? Let Rice,
Before we fingerpoint to Pakistan, let me ask the Indian Govt. as to what have they done to negate Dawood gangs nefarious activities in Mumbai/ India?? Have they gone behind his goons. As we all know now, the terrorists carried out a detailed recce of all the targets thay had intended to attack. This would not have happened without the support of Dawood
You are right that there are some insiders who had supported this act. They will also be punished, but we also need to be very straight forward with Pakistan that they cannot just support any such attack on India and always get away with it. You are hurt as India has pointed finger at Pakistan. Why So ?? Don't you think that Pakistan has sheltered these dreaded terror maniacs, even Dawood ?
it cant be done as congress is interested in you sabir. finally vote is more inmortant than india or its citizons
Do not worry about those who have come thru boats... Our forces can easily defeat them. WORRY about those who have come thru votes.... Those are our REAL ENEMIES….2. What a shame and disgrace to every citizen of India that the elite NSG Force was transported into ordinary BEST buses, whereas our cricketers are transported into state of the art luxury buses, these Jawans lay down their lives to protect every Indian and these cricketers get paid even if they lose a match, we worship these cricketers and forget the martyrdom of these brave Jawans.The Jawans should be paid the salaries of the cricketers and the cricketers should be paid the salaries of the Jawans.3.Our NSG, BSF, ARMY, do not have a dedicated AIRCRAFT to perform rapid operations, while every tom dick n harry Minister is travelling through his Personalized Helicopter....!!!4. Our Navy has total 25 Heavy artillery loaded ships, while a country named Korea which is smaller than Chattisgarh has 250 Heavy artillery
First of all, we are not watching films. Don't try copy paste and dont try to spare pakistan and put entire blame on Politicians. The percentage of the Mumbai exploitation must equally go for the Terrorists in Pakistan and Indian Media.
Before finger pointing to Pakistan, let us get our own house in order. A very interesting question that comes to my mind is that why havent our authorities eliminated the D-gangs activities in India. They still remain strong in Mumbai and the impotent Maharashtra government has done nothing to stem this rot. If D-gang still has control over Mumbai docks nefarious activities then another attack is not too far. WHEN WILL OUR CORRUPT POLITICIANS STOP PROVIDING COVER TO CRIMINALS BEFORE WE ASK PAKISTAN TO ARREST LeT CHIEF etc etc... LET US FIRST ARREST AND HANG THE ENEMY WITHIN i.e THE POLITICIAN.