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Q.*223 Role of ISI in mumbai attacks
STARRED QUESTION NO.223
TO BE ANSWERED ON 17.08.2011
SHRI CHAUDHARY LAL SINGH:
Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:
(a) whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other investigating agencies of the United States have confirmed the role of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)) in fermenting, planning and executing 26/11 Mumbai attacks;
(b) if so, the reaction of the Government thereto;
(c) whether the Government has raised/proposes to raise this issue at international fora; and
(d) if so, the details thereof ?
ANSWER THE MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (SHRI S. M. KRISHNA)
(a) & (b) In April 2011, the United States Government charged Tahawwur Rana and six other individuals in a District Court in Chicago for their role in the terrorist attack in Mumbai in November 2008. The accused include those the Government believes are associated with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The testimonies during the Tahawwur Rana trial in May-June 2011 further established ISI’s complicity in the Mumbai terrorist attack.
(c) & (d) The Government has consistently drawn the attention of the international community to ISI’s role in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack and, more broadly, to the links between Pakistan’s security establishment and the terrorist groups operating out of Pakistan.