Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai, right, shakes hand with Pakistan’s Interior Secretary Qamar uz Zaman during talks in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 28, 2011. - AP Photo
**NEW DELHI: India has named five Pakistani army officers in a list of 50 criminals it wants extradited to stand trial on terror charges, the first time India has directly accused serving Pakistani military officers of being involved with militancy. **
The “most-wanted list” was handed to Pakistan in March, its contents have only just been released. The timing of the release coincides with increasing pressure on Pakistan over claims it harboured Osama bin Laden.
Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai presented the list to his Pakistani counterpart, Qamar Zaman Choudhary, during a meeting in March, a senior government official with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
New Delhi has long accused Pakistan of harbouring militants such as the those behind the Mumbai attacks in 2008 that killed 166 people, who it says were supported by the country’s military intelligence agency, the ISI.
In addition to five serving majors in the Pakistan army, the list includes accused underworld leader Dawood Ibrahim, and suspected members of militant groups al Qaeda, Lakshar-e-Toiba and Jasih-e-Mohammed.
US special forces killed bin Laden at his home in a military town 50 km (30 miles) from Islamabad this month, leading to accusations that security agencies were either incompetent or sheltering the word’s most wanted man.
Nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan have gone to war three times since 1947.
The two sides have been making tentative moves to revive a sluggish 2004 peace process that was broken off by New Delhi following the Mumbai attacks.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Afghanistan “in the near future” to discuss security and development, a senior government official said on Wednesday, amid regional uncertainty following bin Laden’s death.
Any quickening of the endgame in Afghanistan is a concern for India, which fears a US withdrawal would leave it exposed to an unfriendly, Pakistan-dominated neighbourhood and unfettered militancy in its backyard.
Re: India puts Pakistani army officers on “most wanted” list (mendki ko bhi zukaam)
یہ ڈائلاگ بازی اور نعروں کا وقت نہیں - بہت مشکل اور سنگین صورتحال ہے
But we should be very wise to deal with this situation.
This is not time to talk of the war.
Time to show sense.
Re: India puts Pakistani army officers on “most wanted” list (mendki ko bhi zukaam)
what's wrong with you people? don't you read the clear statement that this list was given to Pak in MARCH, months before OBL was terminated in Abbottabad?
Re: India puts Pakistani army officers on “most wanted” list (mendki ko bhi zukaam)
what's wrong with you people? don't you read the clear statement that this list was given to Pak in MARCH, months before OBL was terminated in Abbottabad?
Re: India puts Pakistani army officers on “most wanted” list (mendki ko bhi zukaam)
So rather than going all huffy about it. Lets look at options, and the next steps.
1) No military officers have anything to do with any attacks in India- simple answer, no need to do anything
2) certain officers have gone rogue and were involved in providing support to the snakes - why should anyone protect them? they would need to be made a non factor one way or the other
3) It was more than a few rogue military officers- **** hits the fan
My view is that if India can prove it, why protect anyone? Now whatever decisions were made by whoever to be in bed with militant types decades ago were made in past. Just because something was done at some point in time does not mean it has to be sustained, or people have to stick to paths taken.
I think it is overdue to correct mistakes of past and walk away from any linkage with any groups otherwise even if it is not the case the shadow of doubt will always be there due to linkages and associations with nefarious groups.
If what has been happening in the last few decades not enough for people to realize that the nation is on the wrong path, then I dont know what else will be convincing. And please dont give me that this crap has only been around since the war on terror, the proverbial pakhana hit the pankha in the 70s and it has never ended, drug trafficking, sectarian wars, ethnic terrorism, rabid mullahs. Half these psychios running about are ideological children of a chain like this Ji/JUi> Sipah Sahaba > Lashkar e Jhangvi > LeT > Taleban ....and the left half of this chain was given way too much leeway by people starting with zia ul haq.
the messenger may be despised, the message may be painful, but what if it is true. is it simply going to be ignored? would that be the best thing for the nation.
Re: India puts Pakistani army officers on “most wanted” list (mendki ko bhi zukaam)
Indians are truly deluded.
LAADEN KO LAAD DIYA , CHELE CHAPATIO KA NUMBER LINE ME HAI , INKA BHI JALDI JAHANNUM JAANE KA INTEJAM HO CHUKA HAI.supporters are requested to stop barking and braying.