By Farhan Sharif
Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan’s government turned down India’s request to send the chief of the military intelligence agency to investigate the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
Officials of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, will instead be sent to India, said Zahid Bashir, Pakistan premier’s press secretary, in a telephone interview from the capital Islamabad.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said yesterday he will send the intelligence head to India for the first time to counter claims that the attackers are linked to his country.
India will “go after” individuals and organizations behind the attacks, which were “well-planned with external linkages,” India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in a televised address Nov. 27, without identifying the nations.
At least 195 people were killed in the attacks on the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and Oberoi-Trident hotels, a Jewish center, railway station and restaurant, said S. Jadhav, an official at the Mumbai’s disaster management unit.
To contact the reporter on this story: Farhan Sharif in Karachi at fsharif2@bloomberg.net.
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