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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41977)	12/17/2001 12:52:26 AM
From: sandeep	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Do you have any comments on the attack in the Indian parliament? The Indian govt is blaming some terrorists with Pakistani support.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (41977)	12/17/2001 10:13:27 AM
From: JHP	Respond to of 50167

India says Pakistan directed attack Tensions increasing after New Delhi warns of forceful response By Neelesh Misra, Associated Press, 12/17/2001 EW DELHI - Indian police alleged yesterday that a suicide attack on the national Parliament had been organized by Pakistan-based militant groups at the direction of Pakistan's intelligence agency. A Pakistani government spokesman, Anwar Mahmood, rejected the allegation, repeating President General Pervez Musharraf's statement Saturday that India has provided no proof of any Pakistani involvement. Musharraf also warned against Indian reprisals. In Washington, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday urged India and Pakistan to work together against terrorism and avoid escalating tensions, saying the situation ''has the potential of becoming very dangerous.'' ''What we don't want to do is see the rhetoric get so ratcheted up that the rhetoric is then followed by action which lets the whole situation go out of control,'' Powell said on NBC's ''Meet the Press.'' On Saturday, India's leaders accused Pakistan of responsibility for the carnage at the Parliament building and warned that the attack demands a strong response. Musharraf said India had no proof the attackers operated from his country or were supported by it. Announcing the results of an investigation yesterday, New Delhi police commissioner Ajay Raj Sharma named five Pakistanis he said carried out the suicide raid, which killed 13 people, including the attackers. Sharma said the attack was planned by leaders of Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, two Islamic militant groups fighting to separate the mostly Muslim region of Kashmir from India, and accused Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence, or ISI, of involvement. Masood Azhar, a leader of Jaish-e-Mohammad, and Zaki-ur Rehman of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba ''have both planned a combined operation on directions from Pakistan's ISI,'' Sharma said. He said the conclusions were based on statements from four people who were arrested and confessed involvement. ''The ISI connection is very clear,'' he said. ''These people have not said that Pakistan was in the know, but the things that come to our notice show that the ISI was connected to the attack, and if the ISI is involved, Pakistan ought to know about it.'' No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba have denied involvement. Sharma said Mohammad Afzal, who he said admitted to being a Jaish-e-Mohammad member after he was arrested Saturday on suspicion of supervising the attack, was trained by the ISI. Indian police said an Arabic lecturer they detained told investigators that Afzal and Shaukat Hussain, both Muslims from Kashmir, coordinated the attack and provided guns, grenades, and explosives. Sharma said Afzal and Hussain fled New Delhi and were arrested in Kashmir. Sharma said the attackers were led by a man identified as Mohammed. Kashmir's police chief said yesterday that in 1999, Mohammed was among the hijackers of the Indian plane whose passengers were freed in exchange for the release of Azhar and other militants from prison in India. Police said Afzal, who was arrested in Srinagar in connection with the raid on Parliament, had revealed the identity of the hijacker during interrogation. ''Afzal identified the hijacker as Mohammad alias Baba. During interrogation Afzal also said Mohammad killed Rupin Katayal, one the passengers on board,'' said the official. In another development, four attackers were killed in a shootout with border security yesterday when they raided an Indian paramilitary camp in disputed Kashmir, officials said. No militant group had taken responsibility for yesterday's attack, in which one soldier was injured, a paramilitary spokesman said. Material from Reuters was used in this report. This story ran on page A3 of the Boston Globe on 12/17/2001. © Copyright 2001 Globe Newspaper Company. [ Send this story to a friend \| Easy-print version \| Search archives ]