Pakistan, fending off growing evidence that terrorists mounted a seaborne assault from Karachi, said Friday it was dispatching its spy chief to India.
Terrorists suspected of links to Kashmiri separatists have killed at least 150 people, including 22 foreigners, in a wide ranging, coordinated assault on India's financial and movie capital that began Wednesday.
The terrorists' main targets were two luxury hotels and the headquarters of an Orthodox Jewish organization.
Indian officials told reporters two gunmen had been captured who were British citizens of Pakistani origin.
Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee pointed a finger directly at Pakistan, saying: "Based on preliminary information, and prima facie evidence we have, elements of Pakistan are linked to this."
But Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi warned India not to "be jingoist" and said the two nuclear armed countries "are facing a common enemy, and we have to join hands to defeat this enemy."s
According to a SpyTalk source with close connections to top Indian intelligence and security officials, it was "far less likely today than a few years ago" that Pakistani intelligence, which in the past was deeply involved with Islamic Kashmiri separatists, would have been involved in the Mumbai attacks.
[I discussed these warnings on the PBS television show WorldFocus.]
Mukherjee did not specifically charge Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, with complicity in the assault.
Pakistan's decision to send Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the director general of the ISI, will mark the first time one of its chiefs has been known to visit India, its longtime nuclear-armed rival, but recently both sides' intelligence services have been meeting with an idea toward quelling points of tension
It was not immediately clear, however, when General Pasha would leave for India.
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