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NEW DELHI: India on Thursday said it will react to Pakistan's response to the dossier on Mumbai attacks after receiving and studying it.
"Our High Commissioner to Pakistan will be going to the Foreign Office later in the day when we expect to receive a formal report. When the response is available, we will study it and react further," External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash told reporters.
He said Indian officials had seen media reports on the statements made by Pakistan's interior minister Rahman Malik.
New Delhi: Echoing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani today said a “local angle” to the Mumbai attacks “could not be ruled out”, and demanded a “thorough” judicial inquiry covering “this aspect of the conspiracy as well”. “Is it true that one Fahim Ansari, said to be a Goregaon resident, was arrested in connection with this attack in November 2008? It is believed that he said during his interrogation that such an attack was being planned, and that his associates had even done a recce of the areas. One of his associates, Sabahuddin Ahmed, was arrested in April 2008. It is apparent that their preparations for the attack were on for a year. It is impossible that they could have carried out such a big operation without any local support,” Advani said in Parliament. At a recent BJP conclave in Nagpur, Modi had said: “Attacks like 26/11 couldn’t have happened without local support... The UPA Government is quiet on this aspect because of vote-bank politics.”
