Tuesday 26 June 2012

Pakistan in the cold on Lashkar after Abu Jundal's arrest


The main political increase for India from the arrest of Lashkar-e-Taiba functioning Abu Jundal, also known by his set name Abu Hamza, will be its collision on Pakistan.

Islamabad, already inaccessible on other issues, will be shocked when it realises how the seize took place.
Various sources say the preliminary tip-off that Jundal was in Saudi Arabia came from US intelligence. He was then apprehended by Riyadh which in turn told India to send a particular plane to pick him up. That a number of governments worked jointly to help India increases pressure on Pakistan, says counter-terrorism specialist Ajai Sahni.

That the 2 countries caught up were ones Pakistan has seen as allies would be especially unnerving. Pakistan-based security psychoanalyst Talat Masood supposed the Saudi role was important  Pakistani-Saudi security links were even faster than those Islamabad had with the US.

An Indian civil servant says Saudi-India counter-terrorism cooperation, once absent, has deepened significantly the past two years. This is partly driven by Saudi attention in India as a future oil client, Lashkar’s float towards the anti-Saud Al Qaeda and US pressure.

Says a Washington-based LeT spectator: “There is a realisation in Washington that a key income to go after the LeT is to go from side to side the Gulf.”
 
.His admission would make it harder to deny the state links to the assault, says a senior retire Indian intelligence officer. After all, Jundal was in the radical control room during 26/11, beside senior Lashkar and ISI officers.

New Delhi can wait for to throw any new evidence at Pakistan, pushing harder for action alongside the LeT perpetrators of 26/11, many of whom were under arrest and then released, counting Jundal. “He can be used to scheme our case, provide more hard proof to Pakistan and the international community,” say Sahni.

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