Chidambaram was asked that while he says that the UPA government has decided not to engage in dialogue with Pakistan until the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks are brought to justice, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Pakistani leader in Sharm-el-Sheikh, and reaches out to Pakistan with a hand of friendship in Srinagar.
As Congress wants to claim credit for BrahMos, one must ask, what did they do with it? The answer is damning. Despite repeated terror attacks, especially the 2008 Mumbai attack (26/11), and countless strikes on Indian soil by Pakistani proxies, Congress never intended to use BrahMos even once.
Rana reportedly told Headley that the nine LeT terrorists killed during the attack “should be given the Nishan-e-Haider,” Pakistan’s highest military honour awarded posthumously for battlefield valor.
This comes after the US Secretary of State had signed the surrender warrant authorizing Rana's extradition to Indian authorities on February 11. Rana's legal counsel subsequently filed an emergency stay motion seeking to challenge that order.
Rana is a close associate of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist David Coleman Headley, who is wanted in India for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
It is pertinent to recall that in August 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stated that Tahawwur Rana is “extraditable to India” under the extradition treaty between India and the US.
"Who will now ensure justice for the victims here? America has done this to please Pakistan and has executed this conspiracy jointly," PM Modi lashed out in 2011 after Chicago court acquitted Tahawwur Rana.
Rana has been lodged in the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Los Angeles for over 10 years since he was convicted of the 2008 terror attacks by a US court.