Reacting to the Chicago court verdict in the Tahawwur Hussain Rana case,the BJP said on Friday that the country wished to know if his acquittal vis-a-vis the 26/11 terrorist attack on Mumbai was a part of a deal between the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the US and the ISI of Pakistan. This question is very critical because ISI was clearly in the dock, party general secretary and spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said. Surely,the entire operation would not have been executed under the over-all command of Major Iqbal of the ISI only. Prasad maintained that he and other officials of the Navy who provided logistical training to the LeT and others who actually carried out the attack must have been doing so at the command of very senior authorities in ISI and also in the military establishment in the Pakistan. All this would have been exposed and the ISI would have suffered serious embarrassment. Naturally,there is a serious suspicion as also apprehension. Recently the US administration gave a clean chit to the Pakistani leadership in shielding Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The BJP,according to Prasad,was of the view that Government of India must properly examine the entire matter and ensure that as per US law an appeal is filed by the prosecution agencies.
