Pakistan ex-NSA admits 26/11 carried out by a group from their soil

Durrani, a former national security advisor of Pakistan, maintained that the government had no role in the terror strikes that claimed the lives of 166 people. “26/11 Mumbai strikes, carried out by a terror group based in Pakistan, was a classic trans-border terrorist event,” he said while addressing a conference on combating terrorism at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis here. Later talking to reporters, he said, “I know (this) for definite. I have very good information that the Government of Pakistan or the ISI (Pakistan’s spy agency) was not involved in 26/11. I am 110 per cent sure.”

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday said India’s position on the 26/11 attack is very well known and there is ‘nothing new’ in former Pakistani NSA Mahmud Ali Durrani’s remark that it was a ‘classic example’ of cross-border terror. “India’s position is very well known and consistent. There is nothing new for us,” the Union minister of state for home told PTI when his response was sought.