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US gets Osama. What about India's most wanted?

US gets Osama. What about India's most wanted?

Author: Correspondent
Publication: NDTV.com
Date: May 3, 2011
URL: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/us-gets-osama-what-about-indias-most-wanted-102940

The US has got its most-wanted terrorist: Osama bin Laden has been killed deep inside Pakistan. But India's most wanted, Hafiz Saeed, still roams free in that very country.

India has evidence that Hafiz Saeed is the mastermind behind India's 9/11 - the Mumbai attacks in November 2008. And minutes after US President Barack Obama confirmed Osama's death, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram used the big news to put more pressure on Pakistan.

The Home Minister said, "Osama's killing 'deep inside Pakistan' underlines that terrorists find sanctuary in Pakistan...we believe perpetrators of the 26/11 attacks continue to be sheltered in Pakistan."

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was less direct, but equally emphatic when he said, "This is a decisive blow to Al Qaida and other terrorist groups. The international community and Pakistan, in particular, must work comprehensively to end the activities of all such groups who threaten civilized behaviour and kill innocent men, women and children."

The confirmation that Osama was hiding in Pakistan, perhaps for as long as five years, may put Pakistan on the back foot, but Indian security experts say this does not mean that the Pakistani establishment will act against Hafiz Saeed or cooperate completely with India now.

"I don't see this incident changing the manner in which Pakistan handles the 26/11 case...they are likely to use the courts and other issues to continue in the manner that they are," said Rana Banerjee, Special Secretary (Retd), R&AW

It is suspected that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was aware of Osama's hideout. But Banerjee is sceptical whether the fact that Osama was tracked down and killed in a garrison town will force the powerful spy agency to change its attitude. "It is also difficult to say whether the Pak-sponsored terror against India will change...Pakistan is more likely to see this as a one-off incident," the retired R&AW man said.

Meanwhile, Hafiz Saeed walks a free man and even holds rallies in Pakistan.



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