One cannot vouch for either the police or the politicians but it is in India’s long term security interests that the law enforcement agencies reopen the serial blast investigations since 2005 in light of the new evidence on SIMI, Indian Mujahideen and their foreign masters with corroboration on ground. The revelations since the arrest of Abu Bashir call for rearrangement of the Indian terror puzzle, they don’t fit the last pieces into a tricky jigsaw. Otherwise, political exigency and the convenience of the law enforcement agencies will result in the big picture never emerging, and the overall threat remaining over India.

Delhi Police now says that Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander Abu Al Qama is the head of Indian Mujahideen and in effect, responsible for the latest Delhi blasts. Even at the cost of being labelled cynical, the police is simply killing two birds with one stone as the main accused of the 2005 Delhi blasts Tariq Ahmed Dar has been chargesheeted of the basis of his call to the satellite phone of Al Qama, who is under the overall guidance of LeT’s chief operational commander Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi. So by introducing Al Qama into the picture, the Delhi Police has sorted out both the blasts, though security agencies know that Dar, a former LeT spokesman, wanted to extract money from Al Qama by boasting about the Delhi strike. The same is the case with Mumbai police, which has painted itself into a corner today by saying that Ameer Raza Khan, brother of killed Asif Raza Khan, was the kingpin behind the Mumbai train blasts and that the five arrested on Wednesday posed as Pakistani bombers.

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