PM names group 'responsible' for Mumbai attacks

The prime minister has visited Afghanistan, India and Pakistan on his visit through the region

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Sunday, 14, Dec 2008 08:31

Prime minister Gordon Brown has suggested that the banned militant group, Laskhar e Taiba (LeT), was behind last month's terrorist attacks in Mumbai which left at least 170 people dead.

Mr Brown made the comments during a trip to India to meet prime minister Manmohan Singh, after his surprise visit to Afghanistan yesterday.

The UK head of government expressed his condolences over the terrorist attacks and has pledged to give India "every help" in order to deal with the problem of terrorism.

Speaking to reporters in India, he said: "We know that the group responsible is LeT and they have a great deal to answer for."

The prime minister has also meet with Pakistan's prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani today after promising to communicate India's concerns to the Pakistani leadership.

Previously, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice made a quick visit to the two countries to defuse tensions between the neighbours in the wake of the attacks.

Pakistan has launched a crackdown against militants in the past few weeks arresting two leaders of the LeT and putting another cleric, Hafiz Saeed, who is suspected of operating a front for the group, under house arrest.

Nine of the ten gunmen involved in the attacks on Mumbai were killed in operations and the sole remaining gunman, Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, is being interrogated by Indian police.

During his visit to Pakistan, Mr Brown unveiled a £6 million "anti-terrorist programme" with Islamabad, after declaring that three quarters of the most serious terror plots being investigated by the UK have links with Pakistan.

Police in the UK have also expressed a desire to interview the surviving gunmen from the Mumbai attacks about terror groups operating within Pakistan.