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Mumbai terror attacks: Rice calls for 'transparency' from Pakistan

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/81417?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Mumbai+terror+attacks%3A+Rice+calls+for+%27transparency%27+from+Pakistanch=World+newsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Mumbai+terror+attacks+%28News%29%2CTerrorism+-+international%2CIndia+%28News%29%2CPakistan+%28News%29%2CUS+news%2CWorld+newsc5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Randeep+Ramesh%2CJason+Burke%2CPeter+Walkerc7=2008_12_01c8=1126818c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Mumbai+terror+attacksc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FMumbai+terror+attacks" width="1" height="1" //divpThe US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, today called for "total transparency" from Pakistan over the Mumbai terror attacks as an angry India blamed its neighbour for the mass killings./pp"I don't want to jump to any conclusions myself on this, but I do think that this is a time for complete, absolute, total transparency and cooperation and that is what we expect [from Pakistan]," Rice told reporters travelling with her to London, Reuters reported./ppRice was scheduled to meet David Miliband, the foreign secretary, later today in London before travelling to India on Wednesday./ppThe US and UK have been urging restraint as India's government said it had raised security to a "war level" and had obtained definite proof of a Pakistani link to the killings./ppSri Prakash Jaiswal, India's minister of state for home affairs, said last night that the country's "intelligence will be increased to a war level, we are asking the state governments to increase security to a war level". The Press Trust of India, India's official news agency, also reported that the government was considering suspending the four-year-old peace process with its neighbour./ppJaiswal said there was "no doubt that the terrorists had come from Pakistan ... We have evidence of their nationalities. We will reveal everything soon"./ppA police officer involved in the interrogation of the only attacker captured alive by Indian commandos, named as Ajmal Amir Kasab, a 21-year-old Pakistani, told Reuters the militants had spent months in Pakistan having military-style training. It is believed 10 militants carried out the assault./ppIndia's actions prompted Pakistan to say it would end military operations against Islamist militants on the Afghan border, which are critical to the hunt for al-Qaida-linked militants, due to the "unwanted conflict" with Delhi./ppPakistan's government has condemned the Mumbai assault as a "barbaric act of terrorism" and denied involvement by any "state institutions". But the group named by India, Lashkar-e-Taiba, has longstanding relationships with Pakistan's security establishment./ppIn an interview published this morning, Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, appealed to India not to punish his country, warning that "non-state actors" could provoke the nuclear-armed neighbours into conflict./pp"Even if the militants are linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, who do you think we are fighting?" he told the Financial Times./ppAs many schools and shops opened this morning for the first time since the attacks on Wednesday evening, state government officials said the final siege site to be cleared, the Taj Mahal hotel, had now been completely checked. The death toll has now been put at 172, including 19 foreigners. One Briton was among the dead./pp"We were apprehensive about more bodies being found. But this is not likely. All rooms in the Taj have been opened and checked," said a spokesman for Maharashtra's state government./ppIn India, the government is struggling to contain public anger over the attacks with demonstrators taking to the streets to vent their anger over the inability to stop the killings./ppThe chief minister of Maharashtra state, Vilasrao Deshmukh, said today he had offered to resign. India's home minister, Shivraj Patil, stepped down yesterday./ppIndia's ruling Congress party, which faces a general election next year, has been attacked by opponents for being soft on terrorism, a potent charge given that India has suffered a major attack every month this year. The government said last night it would urgently upgrade maritime and air security and look to create a federal investigative agency./ppThe peace process between India and Pakistan now appears in doubt. "There is a view in the government that India should suspend the peace process ... to show that it is not going to take lightly the deadly carnage in Mumbai," the Press Trust of India reported. It quoted sources as saying the government, "including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is very upset as it feels that Pakistan has not kept its promise made at the highest level to end terrorism directed at India"./ppLashkar-e-Taiba, which is fighting Indian control of the disputed Kashmir region, was behind a deadly 2001 assault on the Indian parliament that pushed New Delhi and Islamabad to the brink of war./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/mumbai-terror-attacks"Mumbai terror attacks/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/terrorism"Global terrorism/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/india"India/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pakistan"Pakistan/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/07ZvwR_Ib-VMeUVUjIuth1us1O4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/07ZvwR_Ib-VMeUVUjIuth1us1O4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Attentats de Bombay: Rice appelle Islamabad à une coopération "totale"

Terreur à Mumbai - Un attentat qui met en cause plus d'un gouvernement

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Pakistan warns west: we cannot fight al-Qaida if crisis escalates

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- 1 days ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/16756?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Pakistan+warns+west%3A+we+cannot+fight+al-Qaida+if+crisis+escalatesch=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Pakistan+%28News%29%2CIndia+%28News%29%2CAl-Qaida+%28News%29%2CTerrorism+-+international%2CAfghanistan+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Jason+Burkec7=2008_12_01c8=1126658c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Pakistanc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FPakistan" width="1" height="1" //divpSenior Pakistani intelligence officials have threatened to end military operations against Islamist militants along the country's Afghan border if India deploys troops on their eastern frontier./ppIn a rare briefing to senior local journalists, intelligence officials said the coming days would be "crucial" and threatened to pull out all the troops committed to the "war on terror" in the event of "an unwanted conflict" with India. "We will not leave a single troop on the western [Afghan] border if we are threatened by India," an official was reported as saying./ppPakistan currently has more than 100,000 soldiers engaged in operations in the semi-autonomous tribal zones where senior international militants connected to al-Qaida, local extremists and a significant proportion of the Taliban's leadership are thought to be based./ppThe Pakistani operations, largely funded by the United States, are seen by Nato commanders as vital to keep open supply lines to their troops in Afghanistan and to block, or at least hinder, movement by militants across the porous Afghan-Pakistan frontier./pp"These statements are aimed at sending a clear message to the US to intervene to defuse the situation, and that if India wants to use these tragic events as a pretext for a border conflict then that will not be tolerated," said Rasul Bakhsh Rais, professor of political science at Lahore University of Management Sciences./pp"They are saying that if Pakistan has to choose between fighting India and fighting the militants, then it will fight India."/ppThere are fears of a breakdown of the recent peace process between the nuclear-capable countries. After a bloody attack on India's parliament by militants linked by New Delhi to Pakistan in 2001, troops faced off across the Indian-Pakistan border throughout most of the following year with fierce artillery duels across the shared border of Kashmir./ppWashington, concerned about the distraction from efforts to contain Islamist extremism in the region, brokered a peace deal and encouraged a subsequent thaw. The two countries have fought three wars since achieving independence./ppPakistan's government condemned the Mumbai assault as a "barbaric act of terrorism" and denied any involvement by any state institutions. /ppBut the groups that have been named by India as having some responsibility for the attacks, the Pakistan-based /ppLashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad, both have longstanding relationships with Pakistan's security establishment./ppIslamabad has also been forced to backtrack on a promise to send the chief of its main intelligence service, the military Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) to India to help with the investigation./ppConfusion over the dispatch of Lieutenant General Shuja Pasha to India, announced by Pakistan's prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani last week, has revealed the tension between the military establishment and the civilian government in Pakistan, local analysts say./ppA lower ranked official will now travel instead. The mix-up has been blamed on "miscommunication" by Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari./pp"The very fact that they wanted to send the head of the ISI shows how much the [civilian government] want to cooperate," said Tariq Fatemi, a former Pakistani ambassador to Washington and Brussels./pp"But the decision was taken without due recognition of the ground reality in Pakistan, that is to say without consultation with the military and other political players."/ppMohammad Sadiq, a spokesman for the Pakistani government, dismissed reports of tensions as "humbug". "Everything is very much in sync," he said./ppPakistan is making efforts to rally international diplomatic support. Yesterday its foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi spoke by telephone to his counterparts in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates as well as to the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, Sadiq said. Pakistani analysts and commentators have insisted that India has been too hasty to blame Islamabad for the attacks. Many in Pakistan believe that New Delhi is using Pakistan as a scapegoat and are calling for an independent international commission of inquiry./pp"There was a massive intelligence failure on the part of India," said Rais. "The Pakistani government does not want another conflict. They have two insurgencies to deal with and enough other problems already."/ppPakistan's long history of using militants to further foreign policy objectives, initially against Soviet forces occupying Afghanistan in the 1980s and then subsequently in Kashmir, means their current claims of innocence are greeted with scepticism./ppIn recent years Pakistan has tried to rein in groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, prime suspects for the Mumbai attack, or Jaish-e-Muhammad, blamed for the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, but it is unclear how much effort has been made to control the extremists, nor if those efforts have been successful./ppA Pakistani official yesterday suggested that one possibility was a "rogue" militant group, pointing out that the ISI itself had been bombed recently by extremists./ph2'State within a state'/h2pPakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was founded in 1948 by a strongBritish army officer/strong seconded to the fledgling country's military forces after independence. The agency became known for involvement in domestic politics, a trend accelerated by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, father of Benazir Bhutto, who set up a strongpolitical wing/strong. In the 90s, the ISI set up or encouraged a number of jihadi groups as irregular proxies fighting Indian troops in Kashmir. Recent efforts to dismantle or downgrade these groups have proved ineffective, with Pakistan itself suffering regular bombings. The ISI also aided the Taliban in the 90s and is alleged to have contacts with Afghan insurgents. Though frequently called a strong"state within a state",/strong retired and serving officers insist the ISI is fully integrated into the military chain of command. It is staffed by regular army officers as well as some contractors and civilians, and is the means by which Pakistan's military strongprojects its power/strong internally and overseas./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pakistan"Pakistan/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/india"India/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/alqaida"Al-Qaida/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/terrorism"Global terrorism/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/afghanistan"Afghanistan/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/04CkOSrr4FRrg5N_XgeLn9QdlNs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/04CkOSrr4FRrg5N_XgeLn9QdlNs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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At war level: India raises security status amid grief

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- 1 days ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/83377?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+At+war+level%3A+India+raises+security+status+amid+griefch=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Mumbai+terror+attacks+%28News%29%2CTerrorism+-+international%2CIndia+%28News%29%2CPakistan+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Randeep+Ramesh%2CJason+Burkec7=2008_12_01c8=1126687c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Mumbai+terror+attacksc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FMumbai+terror+attacks" width="1" height="1" //divpThe Indian government raised the country's security to a "war level" yesterday saying it had certain proof of a Pakistani link to the Mumbai attacks./ppThe dramatic move prompted Pakistan to say it would end military operations against Islamist militants on the Afghan border, which are critical to the "war on terror", for an "unwanted conflict" with Delhi./ppWith bodies being pulled from the Taj Mahal hotel, where gunmen had made their last stand after a rampage that left more than 170 dead, Sri Prakash Jaiswal, India's minister of state for home affairs, said the country's "intelligence will be increased to a war level, we are asking the state governments to increase security to a war level". The Press Trust of India, India's official news agency also reported that the government was considering suspending the four-year-old peace process with its neighbour./ppPakistan's government has condemned the Mumbai assault as a "barbaric act of terrorism" and denied involvement by any "state institutions". But the group named by India, Lashkar-e-Taiba, has longstanding relationships with Pakistan's security establishment. /ppThe US and UK have been urging restraint since the Mumbai terror attacks and escalating tensions on the subcontinent are likely to top the agenda when Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, meets David Miliband, the foreign secretary, today in London./ppThe Indian minister said yesterday there was "no doubt that the terrorists had come from Pakistan ... We have evidence of their nationalities. We will reveal everything soon"./ppIndian police say they have in custody one of the gunmen, a 21-year-old Pakistani, Ajmal Amir Kasab, and detailed accounts of an alleged confession given by him have been played out in the Indian media. Authorities have also recovered a satellite phone that appears to corroborate much of his testimony./ppA fresh confrontation between India and Pakistan would jeopardise attempts by western powers to persuade Pakistan to take on militants linked to the Taliban and al- Qaida in its tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, rather than pitting its forces against India. Pakistani defence sources said nearly 100,000 troops deployed on the western frontier with Afghanistan could be pulled back to deal with a more immediate threat. /ppIn India the government is struggling to contain public anger over the attacks with demonstrators taking to the streets to vent their anger over the inability to stop the killings. The wave violence unleashed claimed its first political casualty yesterday when India's home minister, Shivraj Patil, resigned as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures. /ppIndia's ruling Congress party, which faces a general election next year, has been attacked by opponents for being soft on terrorism, a potent charge given that India has suffered a major attack every month this year. The government said last night it would be urgently upgrading maritime and air security and looking to create a federal investigative agency./ppThe peace process between India and Pakistan now appears in doubt. "There is a view in the government that India should suspend the peace process ... to show that it is not going to take lightly the deadly carnage in Mumbai," the Press Trust of India reported. It quoted sources as saying the government, "including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is very upset as it feels that Pakistan has not kept its promise made at the highest level to end terrorism directed at India"./ppLashkar-e-Taiba, which is fighting Indian control of the disputed Kashmir region, was behind a deadly 2001 assault on the Indian parliament that pushed New Delhi and Islamabad to the brink of war. /ppIt is believed at least 10 militants carried out the assault on Mumbai. Among the dead were 18 foreigners, including six Americans and a Briton./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/mumbai-terror-attacks"Mumbai terror attacks/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/terrorism"Global terrorism/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/india"India/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pakistan"Pakistan/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/DC-klSKeh1_nZ9pgx18SpGkS_Hw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/DC-klSKeh1_nZ9pgx18SpGkS_Hw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Attentats de Bombay : le processus de paix menacé

New Delhi envisage de suspendre le processus de paix avec Islamabad

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Attentats de Bombay : le processus de paix menacé

Inde/Pakistan: processus de paix suspendu ?