Suspected Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operative Major Sameer Ali visited the Karachi control room of the 26/11 attacks when the mayhem engulfed Mumbai and gave several instructions to LeT ‘commander’ Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.
This was stated by Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jindal during his interrogation by the security agencies, official sources said.
Pakistani-American LeT operative David Headley too had given information about Major Sameer’s role in the 26/11 attacks.
Another suspected ISI officer Sajid Mir, who was also involved in the Mumbai attacks and conspiracy to carry out other terror acts in India, helped Ajmal Kasab and nine other terrorists involved in the 26/11 strikes, to get training in Baitul Mujahideen.
Mir was a key motivator and organiser of the Mumbai attacks which claimed 166 lives, Jindal told interrogators.
When the Mumbai attack was over, Major Sameer told all those present in the control room to disperse and go underground, the sources said.
While Jindal went back to Baitul Mujahideen, Lakhvi stayed at a protected house with his three wives.
Following international pressure, a few weeks after 26/11, sleuths of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency raided the control room and destroyed it, the sources said.
Months later, when FIA raided Baitul Mujahideen camp, they arrested Lakhvi from there.
Jindal said he along with another LeT terrorist Abu Qahfa had managed to escape from the terror camp through a rear gate.
Escaping from Baitul Mujahideen, Jindal went to Faisalabad where he stayed for a couple of months before returning to Muzafarabad, the capital of Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
Soon, Jindal was introduced to a senior ISI officer Colonel Hamza, who assured him all help including providing shelter and finance.
Jindal then travelled to Rawalpindi and with the assistance of Colonel Hamza, left for Saudi Arabia in April 2011.
To remain in police custody
Earlier today, a city court had given the custody of Jindal to Delhi Police for another 15 days. The court said his interrogation by the Delhi police Special Cell will help other agencies as well in their investigation.
“I have given thoughtful consideration to the arguments advanced by all the agencies and out of all of them, I am impressed most with the case of Special Cell of Delhi Police wherein this accused has already been in custody for 15 days,” Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav said.
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Instead of thinking that anything bad happens in Pakistan, India is
guilty, and anything bad happens in India (even if it is true), Pakistan
is guilty; we should try to sort out our problems. Because if we fail
to solve our disagreements, we will always remain poor, always will be
controlled by the foreign hegemony and always remain an insecure place
to live in. Good feelings acquired by name calling and blame game is
always short lived. Solution is always difficult and takes foresight.
@ Rajesh - The only thing that the people of India can do is vote out the politicians who only care about vote-bank politics. Vote in people who are prepared to take action against terrorist countries like Pakistan. Pakistan will never admit the guilt of the ISI, even the civilian govt, so all these CBMs are pointless and talks with an enemy that continues to stab us in the back is foolish.
Why police is revealing details like a fiction drama book? How would
it be helpful in future? We will again produce all these proof to
Pakistan..and they will have some other excuses; until we did not get
any other major strike, and then same routine things for that too.
Have not we lost the purpose of all these investigation. At least to
me these details means nothing. Why we do not strive to overpower the
situation by knowing and treating the disease at its base not the
symptoms. Ajmal kasab, Jundal, Major Sameer Ali....all are just
symptoms. Next time would be some other names we would be running
after. Need to think differently.
We and everybody knew it, Pakistan was involved (except Salman Khan of
course). What are we going to do next. We know it very well Pakistan
will not handover anyone (not even Sarabjit Singh).
Can India do anything ? it depends on the political wind, it has no
direct vote bank impact except losing some votes so No politicians
will do anything. We the people of India will continue to die, and if
someone manages to escape to some corner of the building under attack,
the over ambitious journalist (B Dutt) would give that intel away for
free to the terrorists.
In short no one will get punished if we are killed.
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