Osama killing ‘underlines’ Pakistan sanctuary for terrorists: India
May 2nd, 2011 - 12:29 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) India Monday raised concern about terrorists finding sanctuary inside Pakistan, citing the US statement that Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden had been killed “deep inside Pakistan”.
In a statement, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said the US government had informed India that “Osama bin Laden had been killed by security forces somewhere ‘deep inside Pakistan’.”
“This fact underlines our concern that terrorists belonging to different organisations find sanctuary in Pakistan,” he said.
“We take note with grave concern that part of the (US) statement in which President (Barack) Obama said the firefight in which Osama bin Laden was killed took place in Abbotabad ‘deep inside Pakistan’.”
In that context, Chidambaram raised the subject of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack plotters still being in Pakistan.
“We believe that the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack, including the controllers and handlers of the terrorists who actually carried out the attack, continue to be sheltered in Pakistan,” he stated.
The minister said the Indian government called “upon the government of Pakistan to arrest the persons whose names have been handed over to the interior minister of Pakistan as well as provide voice samples of certain persons who are suspected to be among the controllers and handlers of the terrorists”.
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