Thursday, January 15, 2009

Pakistan's Reaction to the Dossier

I just came across this on the Daily Times...but what interests me the most is that Pakistan has supposedly closed various schools and organizations by banned groups.

Pakistan forms committee to analyse Mumbai dossier

* Malik says 5 Dawa camps closed
* Calls for allowing Pakistani sleuths into India
By Tahir Niaz

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has formed a high-level committee to analyse the information about the November 26 Mumbai terrorist attacks that New Delhi has shared with Islamabad, Interior Adviser Rehman Malik said on Thursday.

Addressing a news conference, he said the findings of the body would be shared with the parliament and the nation.

Sources privy to the measure said FIA Additional Director General Javed Iqbal would head the committee, which would also include Special Investigations Group in-charge Khalid Qureshi and an FIA Director Liaqat Ali Khan.

Malik said Pakistan had closed down 20 offices, two libraries, 87 schools, seven madrassas and five camps run by the banned Jamaatud Dawa, and had arrested 124 people in a crackdown on banned groups in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.

In a clarification, Interior Secretary Kamal Shah said 71 people had been arrested.

Publications by the banned group – Al Dawa, Zarab-e-Tayyaba, Voice of Islam, Nannhay Mujahid and Arabic magazine Rabita – and six websites linked to it had also been shut down, Malik said.

The interior adviser asked New Delhi to allow Pakistani investigators to travel to India for investigation, and asked it to cooperate with Pakistan through direct diplomatic links.

Malik asked New Delhi for details of its allegations of infiltration of terrorists from FATA into India.

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