Gopher

Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:44 am Post subject: Indian-Pakistani Tensions Increasing... |
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Indian authorities said the lone suspect in police custody is Pakistani and was trained by Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a now-banned Islamic militant group also blamed for the 2001 parliament attack...
India is renewing its demands that Pakistan hand over a group of wanted militant leaders suspected of plotting the attacks in Mumbai that killed nearly 180 people.
Indian officials have delivered a list of suspected terrorists and asked Pakistan to hand them over, two sources within the Pakistani government confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.
India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said his country made the request to Pakistan's top diplomat in India, according to the Press Trust of India.
"We will await the response of Pakistan," he told reporters Tuesday... |
If the recent terrorist attack at Mumbai represents India's 9/11, then this looks analogous to the W. Bush Administration's ultimatum to the Taliban in Afghanistan re: O. bin Laden...
CNN Reports |
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