NEW DELHI, 23 October 2006 — A top security official said yesterday India has good but not clinching evidence against Pakistan’s spy agency for its role in the July serial train bombings in Bombay, which killed over 200 people.
India’s National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan’s comment yesterday was significant as earlier this month, soon after assuming office as foreign secretary, Shiv Shankar Menon had said that India would soon provide Pakistan with evidence regarding involvement of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence in Bombay blasts. Menon had said: “This (evidence) is something that we will certainly take up with the government of Pakistan.”
Indian police last month blamed ISI and militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, for the seven bombs which ripped through commuter trains and platforms in the western commercial hub. Both Pakistan and Lashkar have denied any involvement.
Narayanan said while the evidence was as good “as we can possibly get in terrorist cases,” it could not be called clinching.
“We have connectivity, linkages, confessions. We have a number of arrests which are pretty good,” the official told a TV channel.
