Ex Pak Army officials helped train Mumbai attackers: report

New York, Dec 4 (PTI) Former Pakistan Army officers and
those from the powerful ISI helped train the attackers who
targeted India's financial capital Mumbai last week killing
over 180 people, a media report said Thursday quoting a former
Pentagon official.

However, no specific links had been uncovered yet between
terrorists and the Pakistani government, the unnamed official
said, according to the New York Times.

"A former Defense Department official said on Wednesday
that American intelligence agencies had determined that former
officers from Pakistan's Army and its powerful Inter Services
Intelligence agency helped train the Mumbai attackers," the
paper said.

It, however, did not identify the official, saying he had
spoken on condition of anonymity.

The disclosure came as Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice held meetings with Indian leaders in New Delhi and
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
met their Pakistani counterparts in Islamabad, in a
two-pronged effort to pressure the country to cooperate fully
in tracking down the perpetrators of the bloody attacks, the
paper said.

Pakistan has refuted Indian allegations that militants
operating from its soil were responsible for the deadly
attacks, with President Asif Ali Zardari terming them as
"non-state actors". PTI DS
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