India remembers 26/11 martyrs

Mumbai/New Delhi, Nov 26 (PTI) As the nation paid
tributes to martyrs of the 26/11 attacks two years ago, India
Friday vowed to redouble efforts to bring the perpetrators to
justice.
It also lamented that Pakistan had not punished the
masterminds of the terror strike as it had promised.
To commemorate the memory of 166 people, including 18
security personnel, who were killed in the terror attacks,
Police of the western state of Maharashtra took out a parade
in southern part of its capital city Mumbai beginning from
Oberoi Trident Hotel, one of the sites of the deadly strikes.
Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram, Maharashtra Chief
Minister Prithviraj Chavan and a host of others laid wreaths
at a function at the Police Gymkhana.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in a statement in
India's capital New Delhi, said that "We pledge to redouble
our efforts to bring the perpetrators of this crime against
humanity to justice."
Asserting that India "will never succumb to the designs
of our enemies," he said, "It is this spirit and strength of
character of the Indian people that will defeat such forces
that seek to threaten our social fabric and way of life".
Speaking at a function in Mumbai, Chidambaram said "I
sincerely hope that on the second anniversary of this
horrific tragedy, Pakistan will realise its responsibility as
a nation, as a government and fulfil its promises to bring to
justice those who perpetrated the attacks," said Chidambaram
after attending commemoration events.
Recalling Pakistan's assurances, he said it had promised
to bring to justice the masterminds, the controllers and the
handlers of the terror strike by arresting all the seven
persons whose names were handed over by India to it.
He said Pakistan had not even handed over the voice
samples of the handlers of the 10 Pakistani terrorists who
struck in Mumbai on this day two years back.
Chidambaram said India has "learnt a lesson that while we
will always trust our neighbour, we must always be on guard."
He was speaking after handing over the CNG filling
station dealership to the family of Tukaram Ombale, an unarmed
Mumbai police asssistant sub-inspector, who was killed when
Kasab was caught alive in suburban Borivali on that fateful
night two years ago.
"On a day like this while we honour those who laid down
their lives, while we renew to our people our pledge that
we will do everything in our power to secure this country and
secure the people, it is my duty to caution the people that we
have a neighbour who has not yet fulfilled the promises made
to us," he said. PTI VT
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