Pakistan sends 20000 troops to Indian frontier

Pakistan moved thousands of troops away from its border with Afghanistan towards its Indian frontier yesterday, marking a big increase in tensions between the nuclear-armed neigh-bours after the Mumbai terror attacks. Times Online

Interpol ‘not given Mumbai data’

The global police agency Interpol says India has not shared any information with it about last month’s deadly attacks in Mumbai (Bombay). more

India Gives Pakistan Letter from Gunman

NEW DELHI – India on Monday gave Pakistan what it called proof of Pakistani involvement in last month’s terror attacks in Mumbai, building public pressure on its neighbor as the top American military commander arrived in Islamabad. more

India pressed to share Mumbai evidence with Pakistan

In the days after the deadly Mumbai attacks, India demanded that Pakistan crack down on militants, shutter charities linked to extremists and jail suspected plotters.

With a flurry of raids, Pakistan took many of those steps this week. Now it’s up to India to do what it likes least: share intelligence with its archrival about what it knows and how it knows it.

Keeping the alleged plotters in jail will require unprecedented investigative cooperation across a border mined with distrust and suspicion, and the onus has shifted to India.

Pakistani authorities say they will prosecute in their own courts anyone linked to the three-day siege in Mumbai that left 164 dead — they just need the proof.

“Our own investigations cannot proceed beyond a certain point without provision of credible information and evidence,” said Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. more.

India maintains Pakistan link to Mumbai attacks

India’s top law enforcement official Thursday said suspicion points “unmistakably” to a Pakistani link to the Mumbai terrorist attacks. via CNN

Mumbai Terrorists Relied on New Technology for Attacks

The NYT reports

The terrorists who struck this city last month stunned authorities not only with their use of sophisticated weaponry but also with their comfort with modern technology.

The terrorists navigated across the Arabian Sea to Mumbai from Karachi, Pakistan, with the help of a global positioning system handset. While under way, they communicated using a satellite phone with those in Pakistan believed to have coordinated the attacks. They recognized their targets and knew the most direct routes to reach them in part because they had studied satellite photos from Google Earth.

Mumbai Terrorists Caught

Pakistani authorities claim they’ve caught some of the Lashkar operatives responsible for India attack:

Late Sunday afternoon scores of Pakistani soldiers, backed by helicopter gunships circling overhead, moved on a militant encampment less than three miles outside Muzaffarabad, the small hillside capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. According to local villagers, there were exchanges of small-arms fire as the soldiers launched an assault on the rural camp that was run by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charitable, public face of the Lashkar-e-Taiba guerrilla outfit that India has blamed for planning, organizing and carrying out the Mumbai massacre late last month. While Pakistani officials are not commenting publicly, they confirmed privately that between three and eight Lashkar operatives were captured, including perhaps Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, whom Indian officials have fingered as a top controller of the 10 gunmen who staged the Mumbai attacks that killed at least 164 people.