By Jay Shankar
Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- India will release evidence next week of Pakistani involvement in the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the Times of India reported, citing officials it didn’t identify.
A detailed confession by the lone surviving terrorist, Ajmal Kasab, will highlight a report to be delivered to India-based diplomats of the U.S., U.K., China and other countries, as well as to officials in foreign capitals, the newspaper reported. A copy will also be given to Pakistan, it said.
The report includes photographs and identities of all 10 terrorists, phone logs, data from a global positioning system device and call intercepts, the paper said.
Other evidence includes a logbook recovered from the vessel that carried the terrorists from Karachi, records of satellite phones used by the attackers and transcripts of conversations between the terrorists and their “handlers” in Pakistan during the Nov. 26-29 attack, the Times reported, quoting government sources it didn’t identify.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation was granted “unprecedented” access to all the evidence and intelligence collected by India, according to the newspaper.
India and the U.K. have blamed the Mumbai attacks on Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. The militant group received weapons and logistical support from Pakistan’s main intelligence agency for attacks in Indian Kashmir in the 1990s, according to Indian and U.S. officials. The group was banned in Pakistan in 2002.
Pakistan has asked India for evidence so that it can locate terrorists involved in the Mumbai attacks and punish them. Pakistan is also under pressure from the U.S. and the U.K. to take more effective measures to curb terrorism.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jay Shankar in Bangalore at jshankar1@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: January 3, 2009 23:19 EST
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