Pak must deliver justice on 26/11, warn India, US
We once again call on the government of Pakistan to give up double standards and to expeditiously bring the perpetrators of the horrific attack to justice GOVERNMENT STATEMENT
It is an affront to the families of the victims that, after 10 years, those who planned the Mumbai involvement convicted attack have for still their not been MIKE POMPEO, US state secretary
Terror achieves no purpose... our dear citizens were lost due to acts of grave terror. I can only hope that saner elements will prevail in India and Pakistan MANMOHAN SINGH, former PM
DELHI/WASHINGTON/JAIPUR: India and the United States built pressure on Pakistan on Monday to act against those responsible for the Mumbai attacks even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the opposition Congress party of politicising issues of national security on the 10th anniversary of the carnage that killed 166 people, including 28 foreigners.
As India mourned those killed 10 years ago and celebrated the courage of the security personnel who fought the terrorists in Mumbai, Modi’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government called on Pakistan to give up its “double standards” and bring the perpetrators to justice.
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, too, urged Pakistan to act against those responsible for the attacks. The US also offered a new reward of $5 million for information on any individual responsible for the terrorist assault on India’s financial hub.
A strongly worded statement from the foreign ministry said the “planners of 26/11 still roam the streets of Pakistan with impunity” and noted the attacks were “planned, executed and launched from Pakistan territory”.
The statement also referred to former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif’s remarks during an interview earlier this year acknowledging that the “terrorists were sent from Pakistan’s soil”.
At election rallies in Rajasthan, Modi said the Congress used the 26/11 attacks for political gains, adding that the party was in power both at the Centre and in Maharashtra when the Pakistani terrorists, armed with assault rifles and hand grenades, laid a three-day siege to the city beginning November 26.
“Back then they (the ruling side) used to say: it is a war Pakistan has waged against India...and the issue of terrorism should not be politicised,” Modi said in Bhilwara. “The incident shook the world, and Congress was using that to play a game of winning elections.”
His remarks drew sharp reactions from the Congress, which condemned and rejected “the utter falsehood”.
Modi alleged that the same Congress, which once preached the message of patriotism, questioned India’s surgical strikes on Pakistani soil during NDA’s rule and asked for video proof.