Purohit hired Pak militants to execute Samjhauta attack: Malik

Rezaul H Laskar
Islamabad, Jan 24 (PTI) Pakistani Interior Minister
Rehman Malik has alleged that an Indian Army officer linked to
the 2007 bombing of the trans-border Samjhauta Express train
had hired Pakistan-based militants to carry out the attack.

Malik has for long been insinuating that the killing
of Mumbai Anti-Terror Squad chief Hemant Karkare during the
terrorist attacks on the city in November 2008 was in some way
linked to his investigation into the role of Col S K Purohit
in the bomb blasts in Malegaon in 2006.
During an interaction with journalists on the
sidelines of an official function Saturday, Malik said: "Col
Purohit was investigated by Karkare, who was killed in the
Mumbai attacks (and this) clearly demonstrates that there were
some Pakistan-based Islamists (involved in the attack on the
Samjhauta Express).
"They (Islamist militants) were hired and used in the
Samjhauta Express (attack)," he alleged.
Malik did not give further details or say on what
basis he was making the allegation.
He claimed India had not responded to Pakistan's
repeated requests for information on the probe into the 2007
bombing of the Samjhauta Express in which nearly 70 people,
most of them Pakistanis, were killed.
"That's the dossier we have requested India to provide
us and India is not providing us," Malik said, and challenged
Indian authorities to prove there was no link between Purohit
and the bombing of the train. PTI RHL
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