Imran Khan indirectly acknowledges 26/11 terror attack originated from Pakistan

While tacitly acknowledging that the 26/11 terror strike in Mumbai originated from Pakistan, its Prime Minister Imran Khan said that Pakistan wants "something done about the bombers of Mumbai", news Agency ANI reported.

Khan said that his government wanted to prosecute whoever was involved in the terror strike as it was in "Islamabad's interest to resolve the matter". He said that he has asked for the status of the case being heard in an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan.

On November 26, 2008, 10 Pakistani terrorists arrived by sea route and opened fire indiscriminately, killing 166, including 18 security personnel, and injuring several others, besides damaging property worth crores.

"We also want something done about the bombers of Mumbai. I have asked our government to find out the status of the case. Resolving that case is in our interest because it was an act of terrorism," Khan said in an interview to the Washington Post, his first to a foreign publication.

He stated this when asked about the prosecution of the perpetrators of the audacious attacks and the release of LeT's operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.

The trial, underway in an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan against seven activists, has made little headway in the last 10 years as the Pakistani establishment has been claiming lack of enough evidence against them.

(With PTI and ANI inputs)

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