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'Kayani refused to confiscate 26/11 accused Lakhvi's phone in jail' - The Times of India
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WASHINGTON: Pakistan army chief General
Ashfaq Pervez Kayani refused an American
request to confiscate the cell phone of jailed LeT
commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi being used
to direct the group's operation from the
Rawalpindi jail, reflecting connection between the
country's powerful military and the terrorist
outfit.
"Kayani rejected a US request that authorities take
away the cell phone Lakhvi was using in jail,
according to the memo to secretary of state
Hillary Clinton and the National Security Council,"
said the investigative news report which was
telecast by PBS's Frontline and posted on the
website of ProPublica on Tuesday.
As a result of this Lakhvi continues to direct the
LeT operations unhindered from the safe confines
of a jail in Rawalpindi.
According to the PBS/ProPublica joint
investigation, during a meeting overseas last
summer, a senior US official and Kayani, the chief
of Pakistan's armed forces, discussed a threat that
has strained the troubled US-Pakistani relationship
since the 2008 Mumbai attacks blamed on the
Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.
The senior US official expressed concern that
Lakhvi, a terrorist chief arrested for the brutal
attacks in India, was still directing Lashkar
operations while in custody, according to a US
government memo viewed by ProPublica.
Kayani responded that Pakistan's spy agency, the
Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), had
told prison authorities to better control Lakhvi's
access to the outside world, the memo said.
The Kayani-US officials meeting, the memo said,
was emblematic of the lack of progress three
years after Lashkar and the ISI allegedly teamed
up to kill 166 people in Mumbai.
"The US government filed unprecedented charges
against an ISI officer in the deaths of six
Americans. Yet, Pakistani authorities have not
arrested him or other accused masterminds. The
failure to crack down on the jailed Lakhvi, whose
trial has stalled, raises fears of new attacks on
India and the West, it quoted the counter-terror
officials as saying.
"Lakhvi is still the military chief of Lashkar," a US
counterterror official is quoted as saying.
"He is in custody but has not been replaced. And
he still has access and ability to be the military
chief. Don't assume a Western view of what
custody is," the official said.
Sebastian Rotella - the investigative reporter for
PBS Frontline and ProPublica - wrote that in the
United States, stubborn questions persist about
the case's star witness David Coleman Headley, a
confessed Lashkar operative and ISI spy.
"The Pakistani-American's testimony at a trial in
Chicago this year revealed the ISI's role in the
Mumbai attacks and a plot against Denmark. It
was the strongest public evidence to date of ISI
complicity in terrorism," Rotella wrote.
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WASHINGTON: Pakistan army chief General
Ashfaq Pervez Kayani refused an American
request to confiscate the cell phone of jailed LeT
commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi being used
to direct the group's operation from the
Rawalpindi jail, reflecting connection between the
country's powerful military and the terrorist
outfit.
"Kayani rejected a US request that authorities take
away the cell phone Lakhvi was using in jail,
according to the memo to secretary of state
Hillary Clinton and the National Security Council,"
said the investigative news report which was
telecast by PBS's Frontline and posted on the
website of ProPublica on Tuesday.
As a result of this Lakhvi continues to direct the
LeT operations unhindered from the safe confines
of a jail in Rawalpindi.
According to the PBS/ProPublica joint
investigation, during a meeting overseas last
summer, a senior US official and Kayani, the chief
of Pakistan's armed forces, discussed a threat that
has strained the troubled US-Pakistani relationship
since the 2008 Mumbai attacks blamed on the
Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.
The senior US official expressed concern that
Lakhvi, a terrorist chief arrested for the brutal
attacks in India, was still directing Lashkar
operations while in custody, according to a US
government memo viewed by ProPublica.
Kayani responded that Pakistan's spy agency, the
Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), had
told prison authorities to better control Lakhvi's
access to the outside world, the memo said.
The Kayani-US officials meeting, the memo said,
was emblematic of the lack of progress three
years after Lashkar and the ISI allegedly teamed
up to kill 166 people in Mumbai.
"The US government filed unprecedented charges
against an ISI officer in the deaths of six
Americans. Yet, Pakistani authorities have not
arrested him or other accused masterminds. The
failure to crack down on the jailed Lakhvi, whose
trial has stalled, raises fears of new attacks on
India and the West, it quoted the counter-terror
officials as saying.
"Lakhvi is still the military chief of Lashkar," a US
counterterror official is quoted as saying.
"He is in custody but has not been replaced. And
he still has access and ability to be the military
chief. Don't assume a Western view of what
custody is," the official said.
Sebastian Rotella - the investigative reporter for
PBS Frontline and ProPublica - wrote that in the
United States, stubborn questions persist about
the case's star witness David Coleman Headley, a
confessed Lashkar operative and ISI spy.
"The Pakistani-American's testimony at a trial in
Chicago this year revealed the ISI's role in the
Mumbai attacks and a plot against Denmark. It
was the strongest public evidence to date of ISI
complicity in terrorism," Rotella wrote.
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