India demands Pakistan take action on Mumbai attacks
Last Updated: Monday, December 1, 2008 | 6:50 AM ET
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People are reflected in a mirror with bullet holes at Café Leopold in Mumbai, India, after it reopened Monday. The café was one of several places where terrorists shot at people during an attack on the city Wednesday. (Altaf Qadri/Associated Press)India is calling for Pakistan to take "strong action" against those who were behind last week's deadly attacks in Mumbai.
Pakistan's high commissioner to India has been summoned and told that "elements from Pakistan" had carried out the attacks, foreign ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash told reporters on Monday.
Prakash said the high commissioner was told India "expects that strong action would be taken against those elements."
The attacks in India's financial capital left at least 172 people dead, including two Canadians, Dr. Michael Moss and his partner, Elizabeth Russell, both of Montreal.
Schools and businesses reopened in Mumbai on Monday as authorities finished removing bodies from the Taj Mahal Hotel.
The hotel, one of 10 sites targeted by suspected Islamist militants, is the final site of the 60-hour siege to be cleared by security forces, who had been searching the facility for any remaining booby traps and bodies.
"We were apprehensive about more bodies being found. But this is not likely — all rooms in the Taj have been opened and checked," said Maharashtra state government spokesman Bhushan Gagrani.
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The army had already cleared other sites, including the five-star Trident Oberoi hotel and the Mumbai headquarters of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group.
Indian naval officials said the militants came by boat from the Pakistani port of Karachi. According to one Indian intelligence official, who did not elaborate, the militants were receiving calls from outside the country during the siege.
The siege has raised questions about India's preparedness for such attacks. The city is not equipped with a SWAT team, and authorities had to call in the National Security Guards, based outside of New Delhi. It took the commandos nearly 10 hours to reach the scene.
Home Minister Shivraj Patil, India's top security official, offered his resignation Sunday, saying he took "moral responsibility" for the violence.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has promised to strengthen maritime and air security and look into creating a new federal investigative agency.
Officials say the only gunman captured by police told authorities he belonged to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed region of Kashmir, a senior police officer said Sunday.
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Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has appealed to India not to punish his country for the attacks, saying militants could precipitate a war, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
"Even if the militants are linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, who do you think we are fighting?" Zardari told the newspaper.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is cutting short a European trip to visit India later this week, said Pakistan must provide complete co-operation.
"What we are emphasizing to the Pakistani government is the need to follow the evidence wherever it leads," Rice said. "I don't want to jump to any conclusions myself on this, but I do think that this is a time for complete, absolute, total transparency and co-operation, and that's what we expect."
On Monday, Indian investigators said the militants who launched the attack underwent months of commando training in Pakistan, Reuters reported.
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