Part of Mumbai conspiracy took place in Pakistan: Rehman Malik
February 12, 2009 by SAF Desk
Filed under News at a glance
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has registered a case that could lead to prosecution of the people behind the killing of 179 people in the Indian city of Mumbai last November, Advisor to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik said on Thursday.
“Some part of the conspiracy has taken place in Pakistan,” Malik told a news conference here.
“We have lodged an FIR into the case,” he said, referring to a police complaint, generally known as a first information report (FIR). Malik said Pakistan had assured India of its full cooperation in the investigations of Mumbai attacks and that Pakistan had been a victim of terrorism since long.
The FIR (01/2009) has been registered with a special investigation unit in Islamabad.
“This FIR has been launched. I want to show all of you, I want to show our nation, I want to show the international community, I want to show all those who have been a victim of terrorism, that we mean business,” he said.
But Malik also named other countries, where he said the plotters had made payment transfers or where equipment used in the attacks was registered.
Malik said the money was transferred from Spain to acquire a domain name, used for communication over the Internet that was registered in Houston, Texas.
A Pakistani, Javed Iqbal who was living in Barcelona was repatriated and arrested in connection with the payment, Malik said.
Another domain name used by the attackers was registered in Russia, and a satellite phone registered in a Middle Eastern country, which he declined to name.
He said the investigators needed more information to complete its probe into the November 26-29 siege, when 10 gunmen attacked a series of high-profile targets in the Indian financial capital.
Malik said further information Islamabad had requested from India included DNA samples of the gunmen, nine of whom were shot dead, and Ajmal Kasab who is currently in Indian custody, and their full names.