Terrorist may use Pakistan's Sat phones against India
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 08 July 2009, 19:45 IST   |    2 Comments
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Bangalore: Fresh evidences of continued collusion of Pakistan's official agencies with terrorist groups diagramming attacks on India can block the resuming the talks, the Times of India reports. Sources informs that state actors in Pakistan were trying to help terrorist groups using 'Thuraya' satellite phones to plot attacks on India by camouflaging the location of the phones. This process of faking in intelligence parlance, involves setting up transmitters near the terrorist bases to block the signals from 'Thuraya' sets which can help pinpoint location of the users. The transmitters cannot be set up or remain hidden to Pakistan's own agencies. This clearly states Pakistan's failure to meet the condition set by India, to take credible steps to punish those responsible for the Mumbai attack and to destroy terrorist infrastructure for the resumption of dialogue. Anti-India terror groups prefer 'Thuraya' phones because they are not licensed to be sold in the country, therefore their logs cannot be readily accessed by its agencies. The Mumbai attack investigations showcased problem with the U.S. help to get details of satellite phones used by LeT's Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi and others. The Americans had then used their leverage with UAE authorities to help India procure logs of the satellite phones, stored at Thuraya's Master Control Facility at Sharjah, to establish the presence of the terror masterminds on Pakistani soil. The use of transmitters will, however help terrorists to mask their footprints, and Pakistan to pretend innocence. This comes at a time when India faces the most serious threat in two years, and can set back prospects of the restoration of the composite dialogue process between India and Pakistan. Pakistan has been trying hard for resuming talks which were hold one year ago after the attack on Indian embassy in Kabul. India refuses to re-establish conversation untill Pakistan complies with India's demand to bring the 26/11 plotters to justice and take credible steps to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism on its soil. Pakistan's continuing reluctance to proceed against terrorist groups targeting India from its soil is indicated by this spoofing.

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