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Pakistan summons Indian diplomat on Samjhauta blasts
Monday January 10, 2011 08:47:42 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Pakistan
Monday summoned a senior Indian diplomat to ask for an update on
the investigations into the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing that
killed 68 people, mostly Pakistanis, in India.
The development comes in the wake of the questioning of a Hindu
group leader, Swami Aseemanand, for his alleged involvement in the
bombing of the train near Panipat in Haryana, 80 km from Delhi.
According to the Pakistan Foreign Office, Indian Deputy High
Commissioner G.V. Srinivas was called to the ministry to ask for
the latest information in the investigations.
An Indian weekly magazine Tehelka had reported on the confession
of arrested Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Swami Aseemanand,
which allegedly revealed the involvement of Hindu extremists in
the Samjhauta Express bombing.
"It was reiterated to him that the government of Pakistan was
awaiting the progress made by the government of India in the
investigations into the Samjhauta Express blasts," said a
statement by Pakistan Foreign Office.
"It was also underlined to Mr Srinivas that a response from the
government of India may be conveyed at the earliest," it added.
On the night of Feb 18, 2007, bomb blasts tore through two
carriages of the Samjhauta Express as it travelled past Panipat
towards Amritsar on way to the Pakistani border. Sixty-eight
people were killed, most of them Pakistani citizens.
Pakistan could bring up the Samjhauta bomb blasts during the
meeting of the Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries in Bhutan
next month. They will be meeting on the sidelines of the meeting
of the SAARC council of ministers.
The confession of Aseemanand was made before a magistrate on Dec
18 and is a legally admissible evidence.
He claimed that RSS national executive member Indresh Kumar and
another Sangh member, Sunil Joshi (later murdered), had been the
main masterminds behind the activities targeting Muslims at
religious and other places in Malegaon, Ajmer and Hyderabad.
Aseemanand said that Joshi had been in charge of attacking the
Samjhauta Express.
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