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| Action on terror: India proposes, Pak disposes | | | In a meeting of JATM om March 6, 2007, information regarding deportation of Mohammed Naeem from Bangladesh, explosions in Ahmedabad's public transport, suicide bombing of the special task force office at Hyderabad, grenade attacks on tourists in Srinagar and recovery of explosives from Aurangabad were discussed.
On October 22, 2007, information was handed over to Pakistan with regard to the attack on Mangat Ram Sharma, J&K ex-deputy chief minister, an attack on a meeting of the Prime Minister on November 17, 2004, an attack on CPM leader M Y Tarigami, the Firdaus cinema hall and the CRPF camp at Srinagar. A consolidated list of 48 offenders was also handed over.
NEW DELHI, Jan 11: The evidence shared by India with Pakistan and other foreign countries makes it amply clear why the joint anti-terrorism mechanism
(JATM) between the two countries was doomed to fail from the start: for every Indian claim there is a Pakistani denial.
A sample of responses provided by Pakistan -- contained in the dossier prepared by the foreign ministry —show that when asked to pursue a lead or track a person, Islamabad's reply was that either the link was untraceable or no such person could be found. Most meetings of the joint mechanism set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf saw variations of this script being played out.
During the special session of JATM in October 2008, a document was handed over based on interrogation of four Lashkar-e-Taiba members and two Al Badr members and leads to the suicide bombing of the Indian embassy at Kabul on July 7, 2008. The Pakistani response was that investigations so far have not yielded anyone linked to the attack on the embassy being present in Pakistan.
With regard to evidence on statements and operations of Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the response is that all the militant groups are banned in Pakistan. It is quite clear that there is no sincerity in Pakistan's effort to work on leads gathered by Indian investigators. The cynicism in the Pakistani response can also be judged by the reference to the "banned" groups, a fiction no one in Pakistan is willing to buy, leave alone India.
The JATM, having proved a resounding failure, has been orphaned with no one willing to own up having authored it. It was certainly a concept that the PM laid some faith in, but the foreign ministry bureaucracy, which initially proposed the JATM, has been in hiding ever since Indian Mujahideen bombings blew the mechanism to smithereens.
India has repeatedly handed over what it considers relevant information based on interrogation of LeT and Jaish members. During an interaction on June 24, 2008, information on the attack on the CRPF camp at Rampur on January 1, 2008, about a plan to kidnap a political personality, and explosion at a cinema hall in Ludhiana on October 14, 2007, was handed over. As was a list of LeT terrorists killed in India as per JuD periodicals.
In a meeting of JATM om March 6, 2007, information regarding deportation of Mohammed Naeem from Bangladesh, explosions in Ahmedabad's public transport, suicide bombing of the special task force office at Hyderabad, grenade attacks on tourists in Srinagar and recovery of explosives from Aurangabad were discussed.
On October 22, 2007, information was handed over to Pakistan with regard to the attack on Mangat Ram Sharma, J&K ex-deputy chief minister, an attack on a meeting of the Prime Minister on November 17, 2004, an attack on CPM leader M Y Tarigami, the Firdaus cinema hall and the CRPF camp at Srinagar. A consolidated list of 48 offenders was also handed over.
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