The weapons and grenades used by the 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai last week, investigators claim, have provided them more evidence of the Pakistan link to the carnage that killed nearly 200 people.

Most of them have their source in Pakistan and some are from the Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) in Wah city in the north of Pakistan’s Punjab Province — also the source of grenades and explosives used in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, the 2001 Parliament attack and this year’s Kabul embassy attack.

One of the grenades recovered from last week’s attacks, and whose markings were accessed by 'The Indian Express', bears the name ‘EN ARGES’ in bold letters, followed by ‘Spl HG 64’ and the serial number 7-93-003. The Arges brandname belongs to Rheinmetall Waffe Munition, an

Austrian company, and the grenades are manufactured by POF under license for use by the Pakistan Army.

Similar grenades were found to have been used or seized from terrorists involved in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts, the 2001 Parliament attack and on the three militants gunned down while trying to attack the RSS headquarters in Nagpur in June 2006.

As reported first by The Indian Express, explosives used in the attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul in July this year were also traced to the same POF complex in Wah by forensic experts of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

The AK-47 assault rifles used by the terrorists in Mumbai were manufactured in Russia. One rifle recovered has the trademark symbol of a triangle with an arrow inside it, representing the Izhevsk factory in Izhevsk city, capital of the Udmurt Republic in western Russia, where Mikhail Kalashnikov designed the rifle.

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