Author: PTI
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: February 6, 2009
URL: http://www.dailypioneer.com/154476/Pak-investigators-find-Bangla-link-to-Mumbai-attacks-Report.html
Pakistan's probe into the Mumbai attacks is
likely to indicate that the incident was the handiwork of a network of Muslim
fundamentalist groups in South Asia as investigators have found evidence of
a Bangladeshi connection, according to a media report.
The report on Pakistan's investigation is
likely to indicate that the attacks were carried out by "an international
network of Muslim fundamentalists present in South Asia and spread all the
way to Middle East" while making a case for regional anti-terror cooperation,
the influential Dawn newspaper today quoted its sources as saying.
The daily said Pakistani sleuths were "closing
in on a Bangladeshi connection" to the attacks and had "evidence
of not only the involvement of a banned militant organisation, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al
Islami of Bangladesh, but also of its role in planning the attack and training
the terrorists".
A reference to this is likely to be made in
the report on Pakistan's investigation, the daily said. It is widely expected
that the report will be made public and shared with India later this week.
The Pakistani investigators were also trying
to ascertain "if at least one of the Mumbai attackers was of Bangladeshi
origin", the newspaper said.
