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Karachi to Dhaka: Mubarakan

Karachi to Dhaka: Mubarakan

Author: Times News Network
Publication: The Times of India
Date: July 14, 2006
URL: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1748649.cms

Introduction: 4 Pak nationals nabbed in Nepal

Just after the Mumbai blasts, a call from Karachi to Dhaka said: "Mubarakan, mubarakan (congratulations)" - a clear mission-accomplished message.

Around the same time, a call from PCO near Juhu in Mumbai went to an anxious "mother" in Karachi. The caller assured his mother that he was alright (salaamed) but could not disclose his location and, saying that he could not talk at length, hung up.

An intensive intelligence operation involving central agencies and Mumbai police is on, trawling telecom gateways in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata to track calls which contain "footprints" to Tuesday's serial blasts. The gateways route calls to Pakistan and Bangladesh, the two places where the terror mastermind could be holed up.

The task is daunting, but is crucial. It is desperately backbreaking and intensive work. But as communication had to be the key in such a meticulously-designed terror operation, there were bound to be some tell-tale evidence-use of codes for bombs-that the perpetrators would have used.

Never a simple task, the job of investigators has been made even more difficult because the post-blast chaos at the train stations may well have destroyed precious forensic evidence and the mobile handsets of some of the terrorists, who may have been able to alight from the trains on time.

As part of the cat-and-mouse game, terrorists, said officials, have been getting wiser. No PCO is used twice. Masterminds always interface through Thuraya sat phones, the ability to track which is limited to a few organisations. Indeed, most police forces cannot track these hand-held sat phones which are now commonly used in West Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Moreover, the calls are often routed through a third country in a variation of conferencing. But the sleuths are confident of finding the clues by going back 30 days, and if necessary, more. The heightened intelligence had a fallout with some arrests of Pakistani nationals in Kathmandu.

In Kathmandu, police on Thursday confirmed that they have arrested four Pakistanis is for dealing with RDX but the connection to the Mumbai blasts was not established. "There could be some connection between them and Tuesday's Mumbai blasts, but we are not certain at this point," a senior police officer said.

Investigations in Nepal have been joined by an Indian team comprising RAW, Delhi Police Special Cell and IB officials. The tip-off was from India.


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