Karachi, 2 Dec. (AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Kashmiri separatist group Laskhar-e-Toiba has sought to distance itself from last week's Mumbai terror attacks by suggesting disgruntled Indian militants were responsible for the violence. In a telephone interview with Adnkronos International (AKI),
Lashkar-e-Toiba spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi said the attack was not carried out by any Kashmiri militants.
“This is definitely an inside job from within the Indian establishment which helped the attackers go into Mumbai via the Arabian Sea, if they really infiltrated from Pakistan," he said.
"Otherwise, tell me how the boat, on which those attackers reached Mumbai, avoided Indian naval radars guarding Indian territorial waters everywhere and how any Pakistani fisher trawler can mistakenly enter into their waters, even a mile inside, and they don’t leave any stone unturned to immediately arrest him."
"How come the attackers dodged them?" Abdullah Ghaznavi said.
Abdullah Ghaznavi said that there must have been collusion between some elements in the Indian establishment and the militants who carried out the attacks.“Laskhar-e-Toiba does not have such capabilities." Abdullah said. "Nor do we have such penetration within the Indian establishment to carry out the attack at such a level nor did we in the past. Our activities are restricted to Kashmir and also against the Indian occupying troops in Indian-held Kashmir."
Lashkar-e-Toiba was more than happy to take responsibility for its attacks, the spokesman told AKI.
“If you go through our past records. If we really carried out any action against the Indian forces in Kashmir we proudly claim it but this incident we denounce. Our operations were never against the civilian population, whosoever they are," Abdullah asserted.
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