Mumbai, Sep 30 (UNI) In a sensational revelation, Mumbai police today said Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was responsible for the serial bomb blasts in suburban trains in the metroplis that killed nearly 200 people and wounded over 700 in one of the worst terror attacks in the country on July 11 this year.
Announcing this at a media conference here, Mumbai Police Commissioner A N Roy said the multiple blasts were the handiwork of the Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba ( LeT) and banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), adding 11 Pakistan nationals and 12 Indians took active part in the terror act.
Noting that the trail of money, used in organising the crime, had been traced to Pakistan too, he said funds were transferred to a city-based operative via Saudi Arabia.
The Police Commissioner said most of the Pakistan and Indian nationals were trained in a camp run at Bahawalpur by LeT's India commander Azam Cheema. Bahawalpur-based Cheema has been organising anti-India operations at the behest of the ISI, he added.
However, Pakistan strongly denied Mr Roy's statements. ''Pakistan had offered to help with investigations into the Mumbai train bomb blasts on the basis of evidence and solid information,'' Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said in Islamabad, adding her country had received ''absolutely nothing in terms of evidence, information or leads.'' ''This statement, like those made immediately after the Mumbai bomb blasts, contain unsubstantiated allegations, which the Indian officials and media keep making for propaganda purposes,'' she said.
She said it was quite possible that this was an attempt to divert attention from indigenous elements that may be responsible for terrorist acts in Mumbai and Malegaon.
Mr Roy and anti-terrorist squad (ATS) chief K P Raghuvanshi said investigators have not yet come across any linkages between the 7/11 and the 9/11 in New York nor any evidence linking the Mumbai train blasts with the al-Qaeda found so far.
Declining to comment on the conspiracy angle, which the police officers said was still under scrutiny, the invesigators also ruled out any link between 7/11 and the 1993 serial bomb blasts. They also said the ATS has also not found any links between 7/11 and September 8 blasts at Malegaon and a haul of RDX in Aurangabad.
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Announcing this at a media conference here, Mumbai Police Commissioner A N Roy said the multiple blasts were the handiwork of the Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba ( LeT) and banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), adding 11 Pakistan nationals and 12 Indians took active part in the terror act.
Noting that the trail of money, used in organising the crime, had been traced to Pakistan too, he said funds were transferred to a city-based operative via Saudi Arabia.
The Police Commissioner said most of the Pakistan and Indian nationals were trained in a camp run at Bahawalpur by LeT's India commander Azam Cheema. Bahawalpur-based Cheema has been organising anti-India operations at the behest of the ISI, he added.
However, Pakistan strongly denied Mr Roy's statements. ''Pakistan had offered to help with investigations into the Mumbai train bomb blasts on the basis of evidence and solid information,'' Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said in Islamabad, adding her country had received ''absolutely nothing in terms of evidence, information or leads.'' ''This statement, like those made immediately after the Mumbai bomb blasts, contain unsubstantiated allegations, which the Indian officials and media keep making for propaganda purposes,'' she said.
She said it was quite possible that this was an attempt to divert attention from indigenous elements that may be responsible for terrorist acts in Mumbai and Malegaon.
Mr Roy and anti-terrorist squad (ATS) chief K P Raghuvanshi said investigators have not yet come across any linkages between the 7/11 and the 9/11 in New York nor any evidence linking the Mumbai train blasts with the al-Qaeda found so far.
Declining to comment on the conspiracy angle, which the police officers said was still under scrutiny, the invesigators also ruled out any link between 7/11 and the 1993 serial bomb blasts. They also said the ATS has also not found any links between 7/11 and September 8 blasts at Malegaon and a haul of RDX in Aurangabad.
But the police officers xxxx Eds: Picking up from last para, first line of BY8 ''BLASTS-7/11-MUMBAI-PAKISTAN'' UNI TEAM VD VV1929
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