tell me?"
"I'm not authorized to. Sleep tight and you'll know everything before tomorrow sundown."
"Still…"
"Listen very carefully. In our kind of work, we never ask too many questions. We just execute what we are told to and put it into operation. Your AIG expected too many answers. You know what happened to him? My dear friend, Shabba khair ."
Ajmal Kasab
On 26/11, Mohammed Ajmal Amār Kasāb created mayhem at Mumbai railway station CST gunning down close to fifty people including women and children. He also killed four police officers at different places and sprayed indiscriminate bullets on the streets, while fleeing in a Skoda vehicle with another assassin, Ismail Khan.
The police at Marine Drive received information about the duo and they put up a road barricade at Girgaum Chowpatty naka . The Skoda stopped fifteen metres before the naka and steered to take a U-turn. The car hit the road-divider and came to a standstill.
Kasāb and Ismail fired at the policemen. The policemen returned fire and shot Ismail Khan dead. Kasāb lay motionless, playing dead. When an officer with a baton approached him, he pumped five bullets into the officer. The lion-hearted officer, instead of falling, continued running towards him, and clung to Kasāb's AK-47. Kasāb continued firing without any mercy. Other police officers then captured the frenzied assailant.
Onlookers gathered and started to beat up the assailant. The police somehow controlled the situation, and rushed to Nayar Hospital with the injured police officer and Kasāb. The doctors declared that the police officer had been 'brought dead'.
In the other room, Kasāb pleaded with the doctors, "I don't want to die. Please put me on saline."
The doctors gave Kasāb painkillers. Outside the emergency room, the officers of the police department and other investigating agencies waited to interrogate Kasāb. However, the doctor declined any access to the patient until recovery.
While condolences and promises for cooperation from all countries were pouring in, Pakistan went all out to deny involvement of any Pakistani national or organization operating from their soil. They even claimed that it was the handiwork of Indian Intelligence Agencies executed with the sole purpose of maligning the image of Pakistan.
Two days later, when interrogators started questioning Kasāb, a senior ATS officer received a call from Siddhartha Rana, asking him to extract categorical answers on Project Karachi from the 'gentleman'.
Though Kasāb was unaware of 'Project Karachi', he spoke about the involvement of the ISI and LeT and narrated how the terrorists, during the attack, constantly received instructions from the Lashkar control room, which was setup in the locality of Quaidabad, Karachi. He also mentioned how other terrorists and he himself were given commando-like training in the jungles of the Kashmir valley along with marine training in the Mangla Dam of Pakistan.
The officer sent a copy of the interrogation report to Siddhartha, who kept wondering if there was a connection between the Mangla Dam training, Project Karachi, the brutal butchery of the AIG officer, and the still mysterious 'To Pak To' operation.
The hunt to unearth the truth was on, but many questions remained unanswered.
Swat River
During the festival season of Eid al-Adha, on 7 th December, when people were shopping in the Qisakhawani area of the Peshawar Market, a bomb detonated inside a car parked outside a Shia mosque. A man, who chose to remain anonymous, told the Reuters News Agency that it was a suicide bomber targeting the members of the local tribal council.
Later in the day, another news agency claimed that a few people had abducted the informer and taken him to Nemogram in the Swat Valley.
In the valley, the video recording started. Imran Shah Malik was on his knees in prayer. When he lifted his head, he saw four men pointing AK-47s at him. His hands shook and he started to scratch his right thigh
"I'm not authorized to. Sleep tight and you'll know everything before tomorrow sundown."
"Still…"
"Listen very carefully. In our kind of work, we never ask too many questions. We just execute what we are told to and put it into operation. Your AIG expected too many answers. You know what happened to him? My dear friend, Shabba khair ."
Ajmal Kasab
On 26/11, Mohammed Ajmal Amār Kasāb created mayhem at Mumbai railway station CST gunning down close to fifty people including women and children. He also killed four police officers at different places and sprayed indiscriminate bullets on the streets, while fleeing in a Skoda vehicle with another assassin, Ismail Khan.
The police at Marine Drive received information about the duo and they put up a road barricade at Girgaum Chowpatty naka . The Skoda stopped fifteen metres before the naka and steered to take a U-turn. The car hit the road-divider and came to a standstill.
Kasāb and Ismail fired at the policemen. The policemen returned fire and shot Ismail Khan dead. Kasāb lay motionless, playing dead. When an officer with a baton approached him, he pumped five bullets into the officer. The lion-hearted officer, instead of falling, continued running towards him, and clung to Kasāb's AK-47. Kasāb continued firing without any mercy. Other police officers then captured the frenzied assailant.
Onlookers gathered and started to beat up the assailant. The police somehow controlled the situation, and rushed to Nayar Hospital with the injured police officer and Kasāb. The doctors declared that the police officer had been 'brought dead'.
In the other room, Kasāb pleaded with the doctors, "I don't want to die. Please put me on saline."
The doctors gave Kasāb painkillers. Outside the emergency room, the officers of the police department and other investigating agencies waited to interrogate Kasāb. However, the doctor declined any access to the patient until recovery.
While condolences and promises for cooperation from all countries were pouring in, Pakistan went all out to deny involvement of any Pakistani national or organization operating from their soil. They even claimed that it was the handiwork of Indian Intelligence Agencies executed with the sole purpose of maligning the image of Pakistan.
Two days later, when interrogators started questioning Kasāb, a senior ATS officer received a call from Siddhartha Rana, asking him to extract categorical answers on Project Karachi from the 'gentleman'.
Though Kasāb was unaware of 'Project Karachi', he spoke about the involvement of the ISI and LeT and narrated how the terrorists, during the attack, constantly received instructions from the Lashkar control room, which was setup in the locality of Quaidabad, Karachi. He also mentioned how other terrorists and he himself were given commando-like training in the jungles of the Kashmir valley along with marine training in the Mangla Dam of Pakistan.
The officer sent a copy of the interrogation report to Siddhartha, who kept wondering if there was a connection between the Mangla Dam training, Project Karachi, the brutal butchery of the AIG officer, and the still mysterious 'To Pak To' operation.
The hunt to unearth the truth was on, but many questions remained unanswered.
Swat River
During the festival season of Eid al-Adha, on 7 th December, when people were shopping in the Qisakhawani area of the Peshawar Market, a bomb detonated inside a car parked outside a Shia mosque. A man, who chose to remain anonymous, told the Reuters News Agency that it was a suicide bomber targeting the members of the local tribal council.
Later in the day, another news agency claimed that a few people had abducted the informer and taken him to Nemogram in the Swat Valley.
In the valley, the video recording started. Imran Shah Malik was on his knees in prayer. When he lifted his head, he saw four men pointing AK-47s at him. His hands shook and he started to scratch his right thigh
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