With US help, India is said to have collected evidence that points to the role of the Pakistani ISI in the Mumbai terror attacks. Pressure is now being mounted on Islamabad to ban the Muridke-based Jamat-ud-Dawa, which fronts for the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba, and move against its leader Hafiz Saeed.

Sources said New Delhi believes the Mumbai attack was an operation of the Pakistani Army, its intelligence agency and Lashkar cadres and that the civilian government there was not kept in the loop. India has asked Pakistan to act against the perpetrators but has not submitted any list of Indian fugitives to Islamabad after the attack. Sources said New Delhi was demanding Islamabad initiate action not only against the Lashkar but also those within the ISI who actively conspired in the Mumbai attacks.

After pooling intelligence with the US, New Delhi has collected names of trainers and the controller of the Lashkar terrorists, even details of the place where they were trained. Apparently some of the intercepts, mostly voice over Internet protocol, used communication pathways often used by the ISI.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, have urged the Pakistani government to act against the terrorists and their sponsors. While New Delhi is convinced that the Mumbai strikes were planned to the last detail, it is still weighing a response to the attacks. The government is not very sure what effect will another UN resolution against terrorism or another international call will have on what it calls a “rather weak” Pakistani government to uproot the terror network there.

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