Tahawwur Rana return reminder for Pakistan to punish 26/11 perpetrators: India

NEW DELHI: Following the extradition of Mumbai assaults accused Tahawwur Rana from the US, govt reminded Pakistan on Thursday of its duty to carry to justice, and never protect, the perpetrators of 26/11. The trial in Pakistan has been unable to ship justice at the same time as India maintains that it stays dedicated to offering all cooperation to Pakistan for an expeditious and profitable conclusion of the method.
The Indian govt additionally mentioned that Pakistan might strive very laborious, however its repute because the epicenter of worldwide terrorism won’t diminish. After Rana was extradited to India, Pakistan, the place he was born, sought to distance himself from the accused saying he was solely a Canadian nationwide as he had not utilized for a renewal of his Pakistani-origin paperwork for the previous twenty years.
“The extradition of Rana is a reminder but once more to Pakistan that it wants to act to carry to justice different perpetrators of Mumbai terror assaults, whom it continues to protect,” mentioned MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.
In April 2011, the US charged Rana and 6 different people for their position within the terrorist assault in Mumbai in Nov 2008. The testimonies in the course of the Rana trial in May-June 2011 had established ISI’s complicity within the Mumbai assaults.
Successive Indian govts have constantly drawn the eye of the worldwide neighborhood to ISI’s position within the 2008 Mumbai terrorist assault and, extra broadly, to the hyperlinks between Pakistan’s safety institution and the terrorist teams working out of Pakistan, like JeM and LeT.