Pakistan rejects allegations in Indian court’s Mumbai attacks verdict

Pakistan on Thursday rejected accusations against the country’s security agencies in the Indian top court’s verdict in the 1993 Mumbai series attacks.

The Indian Supreme Court in its final verdict delivered on Thursday claimed Pakistan’s hand behind the serial blasts, saying the ‘management and conspiracy of the explosions were done by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and others in Pakistan, and its intelligence agency ISI was also involved in carrying out the strikes’.

Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman, however, categorically rejected any insinuations pointing to the involvement of the Government of Pakistan or any of its agencies in any such activity.

Responding to reports carried in some sections of the Indian media regarding the judgment of the Indian Supreme Court implicating Pakistani government agencies in the 1993 Mumbai terror incident, the Spokesperson said that a detailed response could only be given once the judgment had been studied in its totality.

“Pakistan has on numerous occasions offered cooperation to India in fighting terrorism through laid down bilateral mechanisms,” the spokesman said in a statement.

He said Pakistan remains committed in its resolve to fighting terrorism and engaging with India in a constructive, sustained and result-oriented dialogue process.

The 1993 Mumbai blasts were a series of 13 bomb explosions which ripped apart India’s financial capital on March 12. The single-day coordinated attacks were the most destructive bomb explosions in Indian history.

India claims the attacks were coordinated by Dawood Ibrahim, the don of the Mumbai-based international organized crime syndicate named D-Company.

Ibrahim, the Indian claims is hiding in Pakistan, is believed to have ordered and helped organize the bombings through one of his subordinates Tiger Memon who is also the elder brother of Yakub Memon.

“Yakub Memon and all absconding accused including Dawood Ibrahim were archers and rest of the accused were arrows in their hands,” the Supreme Court said as it also blamed the Indian police, the customs department and coast guards for failing to prevent the blasts.

India’s Supreme Court while giving its final verdict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case, upheld the death sentence of one of the main convicts and ordered leading Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt to go back to jail, more than 20 years after the explosions killed 257 people and injured over 713 others.

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