Mumbai police chief accuses Pakistan over bombings
Mumbai's packed rail network was hit by seven co-ordianted blasts
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Saturday, 30, Sep 2006 07:42
The policeman in charge of the investigation into the Mumbai train bombings has accused Pakistan's security agency of having a role in the planning and execution of the attack.
Mumbai police chief AN Roy told a press conference that he believed that Pakistan's military spy agency ISI and an Islamic militant group based in the country were behind the plot which killed 186 people in July this year.
"We have solved the July 11th bombings case. The whole attack was planned by Pakistan's ISI and carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba and their operatives in India," he said.
Mr Roy also stated that a third group, the Students' Islamic Movement of India, was complicit in the terrorist operation.
The theory has provoked a terse response from across the Kashmir border and could set tensions between the two nations rising once more.
"India has always chosen this path of pointing fingers at Pakistan without evidence," Tariq Azim Khan, minister of state for information, told the Reuters news agency.
In a separate interview with the BBC he claimed that the claims were "baseless allegations - yet another attempt by India to malign Pakistan."
Mr Roy announced that the investigation was now complete with four arrests yesterday taking the total number held in connection with the seven co-ordinated blasts to 15.