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Krishna asks Pakistan to take prompt action on Headley's confession | On the eve of the Indo- Pak Foreign Ministers' level talks, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna today said that India wants prompt action from Pakistan on confessions by Lashkar-e-Toiba operative David Coleman Headley over the Mumbai terror attacks, and added that he was here to see what action Pakistan has taken so far. Krishna, who arrived at the Chaklala
Air Base along with a 15-member official delegation on Wednesday, was speaking
to reporters at Hotel Serena in Islamabad. India's stand has been strengthened
by the revelations of Headley regarding the involvement of Pakistani intelligence
agency in the 26/11 terror attacks. "Headley's interrogation in the United States
has been watched by the whole world; India cannot be faulted and Pakistan has
to take due note of it. India expects prompt action," he said. "I am here to see
exactly what it is that Pakistan has done on that issue," Krishna added. The US
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Headley in October 2009. Headley
revealed during interrogation that Pakistani terrorist leader Hafeez Saeed was
the mastermind behind the 26/11 attacks in which the ISI played an active and
key role, and confessed to his role in the Mumbai attacks in which Pakistani terrorists
killed 166 people and injured over 200 others. Headley, 49, told US interrogators
that he had conducted a reconnaissance of the Mumbai sites before the attacks,
having visited the country several times. On March 18, Headley had pleaded guilty
to conspiring in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008, as well as later planning to
attack a Danish newspaper. |
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