Rakesh Maria, the tall and lean joint-commissioner of police in charge of investigating the Mumbai bomb attacks, allows himself few doubts about Pakistani involvement in the November assault that killed more than 180 people and traumatised a subcontinent. Speaking in his tightly guarded office last night, he left little room for ambiguity when he declared: “This thing has been planned in Pakistan; these people have been trained in Pakistan, have been equipped in Pakistan, and this thing has been launched from Pakistan.”
As to whether such malicious activities could have been undertaken without the direct knowledge of Pakistani authorities, he snorted: “I am saying these groups were operating in Pakistan. How can you say they don’t know? Either I am deaf, dumb or blind, or [they are] conniving absolutely.”
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