Pakistan played a role in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks: Nawaz Sharif

New Delhi, May 12: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made a startling revelation about the role of Pakistan in the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai that took the lives of 160 people besides damaging property worth crores.

In an interview to Dawn newspaper, Sharif admitted that terrorist organizations were thriving in Pakistan and terrorists from these outifts were responsible for the series of coordinated terror attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 that attracted the attention of the entire world.

“Militant organizations are active. Call them non-state actors, should we allow them to cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai?” Sharif said.

He also raised questions over delay in completing the trial into Mumbai attacks and asked “why the trial was stalled in a Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court?”

“Why can’t we complete the trail? It is absolutely unacceptable”, he said.

Pakistan has so far not completed trial in the 26/11 case and even allowed the mastermind Hafiz Saeed to roam free, despite him being a designated international terrorist.

The attack:

It was November 26 in the year 2008 when 10 heavily-armed Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists forced their way into the city of Mumbai and carried out coordinated shooting and bombing. The assault on the financial capital of India lasted until November 29.