Pakistan acknowledged 26/11 Mumbai terror attack
On Thursday Rehman Malik the chief of Pakistani Interior Ministry chief, acknowledged, that last year November’s terror attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai which kills 173 people, were partly planned in Pakistan.
Rehman Malik a senior Pakistani official said, "Some part of the conspiracy has taken place in Pakistan. We have lodged an FIR [first information report] into the case."
India has accused the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group of being behind the Mumbai attacks, all the 10 gunmen were Pakistani. Pakistan denied any responsibility in the immediately. This raised tension between two nuclear armed neighbors India and Pakistan, but come clean that the sole gunman captured alive was Pakistani.
Pakistani officials had also shut several schools run by a charity linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, said
Rehman Malik. He added, Pakistan was serious about fighting extremism, but it needed more information from India to prosecute suspects in court.
Pakistan needs DNA samples of the lone captured terrorist Ajmal Kasab and the other nine terrorists who are dead during encounter.