Nepal: Rumors Surrounding The Captured Mumbai Terrorist
Rumors surrounding the background and identity of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only terrorist involved in Mumbai attacks captured alive by authorities, is swirling around the internet. This time along with India and Pakistan, Nepal’s name has been dragged in.
On December 15th, a Pakistani lawyer C M Farooque claimed that in 2005 Kasab was “kidnapped” by Indian officials in Kathmandu with the help of Nepalese security forces to serve “ulterior plans” later.
“The advocate said he wrote letters to Pakistan and Indian governments in this regard. He said that he had also addressed a press conference in Nepal highlighting the issue in which he revealed that the Nepalese forces arrested Ajmal Kasab and many others and held them at an unknown place and that these people would be used for their ulterior designs at some later stage. He said that he had no contact with Ajmal Kasab ever since he disappeared.”
Farooque also claimed that Kasab was in Nepal in a business visa but the Indian officials took him away with an “ulterior” motive. He said that he was later contacted by Kasab’s parents to help find their son.
Pakistani and Indian Bloggers are discussing Farooque’s claim, with some skepticism, as Kasab himself has already come forward accepting his role in the attacks, his association in the terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Toiba and his parents in Pakistan have also identified him.
Nepalese government has released a statement denying Farooque’s claim of kidnapping:
“We have no such information,” home ministry spokesman Nabin Kumar Ghimire told IANS.
Although whether Kasab was actually kidnapped in Nepal by the Indian authorities is being strongly denied by both India and Nepal and very few seem to believe that in Pakistan, Nepal is getting serious flak for its inability to manage its border with India. The criticism is especially loud on the Indian side. The long, porous open border is seen by many as a serious security risk for both India and Nepal.
Ajit Chak at Merinews writes:
“Considering the threat posed by the Lashkar and allied groups, especially after the events in Mumbai, one would expect the Indian and Nepalese governments to take steps to control the wild border with Uttar Pradesh, or at least demand cooperation from each other in managing the border.”
India is also being criticized on the wake of Mumbai attacks. Dr. Hari Bansha Dulal at Nepali Perspectives says that India should examine its security policies:
“India's soft corner for those that raise arms against Nepali state did not end with its generosity towards the Maoists. It continues to provide safe heaven to armed secessionist groups that want to disintegrate Nepal. How is Pakistan's support to Jihadists that want to free Kashmir different from India's turning blind eyes on groups that have raised arms to seek secession? Armed struggle in Nepal will not survive without Indian benevolence.”
Along with the debate over Nepal and India’s policies and about Kasab’s identity, after Mumbai attacks internet is also being used by terrorists and their sympathizers to eulogize terrorists involved in the attacks. Times of India reported that many chat rooms are filled with discussions on Lashkar-e-Toiba. Messages glorifying Mumbai terrorists attacks and spreading hate against America, Israel and United Kingdom is commonly seen on these chat rooms frequented by extremists.
“Some of these electronic terrorists, who also dole out information on how to join LeT, urge the outfit for similar strikes in the US and UK. Ajmal Amir Kasab and the nine others involved in the Mumbai attack are described as heroes.”
16 comments
To sarz,
It does not matter where are you from and what do you think about Imperialism. what matters is whether you are able to bring up sufficient evidences against the existing proof – Ajmal Kasav is from Pakistan and was trained by LeT to strike India. The Geo news clips and the Dawn Editorial suggests that and Govt of Pakistan did not take any steps against either of these two. Hence, it’s crystal clear what the truth is. If you want to question the official version, you have to first explain what is been shown in Geo News and what has been written on Dawn editorial. Do you have any explanation for them? If yes, then I would like to discuss, otherwise, I won’t.
The investigation agencies do not require to answer every question that is being asked by citizens. They have limited resources and hence they work on specific targets. Most of the people take chances on the ‘gap’s left by them to prove their point. However, absence of proper answer does not establish a theory contrary to the proofs given. So, you can present a thousand loopholes in the news media reports, but no theory is established until you rubbish the proves that are available.
To sarz,
It does not matter which country you live in nor are your views against imperialism. These does not affect the facts.
If you really want to discuss about what I claim conspiracy theories, you first need to come up with an alternative explanation of Geo News clips and the Dawn newspaper editorial. So far, conspiracy theorists are not doing very well on that front. Remember, there are four INDEPENDENT resources those point to the same – Ajmal Kasav is from Pakistan. You need to explain all four of them.
I went to the links you have given me. They do provide me a list of “unexplained” things. But, I understand that all Investigation agencies work on limited resources and capabilities. If they want to answer all (impossible?) queries of everybody, they would take a huge amount of time that would defeat the purpose of investigation itself.
To let me believe in an alternative, I did not see any real alternative story being put down by the theorists. Also, what proof they get in favor of their version of story – is also missing. Have you really thought about those?
To sarz,
It does not matter which country you belong to or what your views are on imperialism. Only facts do count here.
To engage in a constructive dialog about 26/11 attacks, you need to first think about the evidences those already have surfaced. Let me remind you that there are four independent resouces those points out the history of Ajmal Kasav. Now, what is your explanation on all four of those? So far, I didn’t see any of the conspiracy theorists are doing a good job on this.
The links you have provided me so far, all of them points out a lot of ‘gap’s in the information acquired by public and investigating agencies (26/11->Police). All Investigation Agencies of the world does not work to answer “all” the queries (though ideally that would have been the best one), because they have limited resources to work with. To answer all questions, they will take much longer time and it would defeat the purpose of the investigation. That’s why they aim at a probabilistic approach to solve the case and leaves a lot of ‘gap’s.
To sarz,
For a change, I would like to ask you one more question. what would have happened if there were no Ajmal Kasav caught – rather we would have killed all ten of them. It’s only by chance that we got hold of one of them, otherwise you could have thought many more things that incidentally you don’t … It may happen that you don’t care for proofs as all proofs can be fabricated.
well sarz , i am not sure who your father is but i would respect him for framing such a great constitution, but unfortunately he would be turning and tossing in his grave if he hears what you say.
Conspiracy theories are great my friend, but it just wouldnt happen in our country and you know why?. Its the same constitution that we are talking about. The four pillars of our democracy are so independent that any such thing would be out in the floodlights the moment it happens
and coming to the reason why i called your statements ” hamid gul” mentality. he is an unbearded terrorist, who created taliban and who believes that 9/11 was work of zionists. and he is liar of the first order. i dont have the link now but when you get time, try listen to his interview with fareed zakaria of CNN and you will feel pity for pakistan who had generals like this.
The links linked to interesting pieces of articles.