Pak adamant, says ISI is no agent of terror
London: Pakistan on Tuesday rebutted Lashkar-e-Toiba operative David Coleman Headley's confessions that Pakistani terrorist leader Hafeez Saeed was the mastermind behind the Mumbai terror attacks in which the ISI played an active and key role. Pakistani High Commissioner to United Kingdom Wajid Shamsul Hassan claimed that that the ISI was not an agent of terror.
When asked if Pakistan was involved in the 26/11 terror strikes, Hassan replied, "Pakistani state is never involved. ISI is not involved because Pakistan has been accused of various activities in the past, which I'm not answerable to what happened in the past. It's high time that we don't get stuck in Mumbai terror attacks only and move forward for the India-Pakistan relation. We need to bring peace in the region for everybody's interest.
"As far as Pakistan is concerned, the country is categorical and clear. Pakistan doesn't have anything to trouble India because if it troubles India it will trouble Pakistan as well. So, we are very clear and don't want any trouble in India. We will not support any sort of terrorists activities in India; by people whom we don't know," said Hassan. "If there are state actors within India, even those people, who claims to fight for the self-determination; we will ask them not to do it. But again you have to pacify them as well as because they have got a cause and their case is being held in limbo in United Nations. As a main factor, UN should put their hands together to bring peace between the two countries, which means a lot to the whole region," he added.
According to Headley, the conspirators’ original plan was to target a conference of software engineers at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai in March 2008. The plan was changed later and The Trident Hotel and the Jewish Chabad House were added to the list of targets.
Headley also identified voices of three LeT leaders who acted as handlers of the terrorists who attacked the Taj Hotel and Chabad House. He has said that Sajid Majeed coordinated the Chabad House attack and Abu Qahafa focused on the Taj. Qahafa's nephew was among the 10 terrorists killed in the Mumbai attack.
He added Lashkar commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was a co-conspirator in the attack. He used his mother-in-law's camera and a Sony Ericsson cellphone given to him by the ISI to shoot videos of targets in June 2008.
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