Sunday Talk: Assessing Pakistan’s Response to Mumbai

Christopher Conkey reports from Washington. In separate interviews, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President-elect Barack Obama on Sunday addressed Pakistan’s response to the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, that killed 171 people. Rice, back from a recent diplomatic trip to South Asia, urged Pakistan to investigate and arrest any Pakistani-based terrorists linked to the Mumbai attacks. Obama said he felt the Pakistani government “has sent the right signals” in its response to the attacks. India has said the only gunman captured alive during the attacks on Mumbai told investigators he underwent months of training in guerrilla warfare organized by Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan. Islamabad banned the group after it was blamed for a December, 2001 attack on India’s parliament. Reuters reported that Pakistani security forces took over a camp used by Lashkar-e-Taiba militants in Pakistani Kashmir on Sunday, quoting a witness and an official from a charity linked to the ... (link)