Nawaz surmises Mumbai attackers accent as Pakistani: WikiLeaks

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Pakistan files of WikiLeaks reveal the detail of PML-N chiefs meeting with a US delegation.

04 September,2011 03:44 pm

The cable, sent by Acting Principal Officer Clinton Taylor of the US Consulate in Lahore on Dec 9, 2008, describes, how the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) chief told a visiting delegation of US senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham that he had listened to the phone call made by one of the attackers to an Indian TV channel, and even though the individual claimed he was Indian, he had heard a Pakistani accent.Although Nawaz later refused claims that the terrorists were from Pakistan, he showed no signs of being in doubt about their Pakistani origin at the December 6 meeting, a news reports.“The people involved (in 26/11 Mumbai attacks) were from this country - I am convinced,” Nawaz Sharif is quoted as saying.“We must take strictest action against those elements,” he declared, adding that once India produces concrete evidence, “we should proceed whole hog.”Nawaz was perhaps trying to stay in the good books of the United States, and in doing so, securing his prospects as a future leader of the country, the paper said.Further cementing his image as a secular and fair politician, the PML-N chief also told the senators that his party had acted responsibly with the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) to fight terrorism.