The elimination of top Lashkar terrorist Abu Dujana on Tuesday has been one of the biggest catches in recent times for security forces. The last year disclosure of Pakistan’s former top sleuth, who has uncovered a raft of evidence linking the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to the carnage that was “planned and launched” from Pakistani soil, vindicated India’s stand on the 2008 Mumbai attacks. On November 26, 2008, Kasab and nine other Pakistani terrorists went on the rampage in India’s financial hub, killing 166 people and injuring hundreds over a period of three days. Abu Dujana’s name was behind some of the bloodiest terror killings from Udhampur BSF bus attack to EDI Pampore. He had been able to give slips to the security forces earlier but better Intel and coordination between various agencies this time was able to take him by the element of surprise. Surprisingly Pakistan has not reacted to the killing of the Gilgit-based terrorist nor on the arrests in the terror funding operations in Srinagar and Jammu. The silence on the part of Pakistan in itself is the testimony that the terror and terror funding operations were managed from its soil. Whereas lack of progress in the Mumbai attacks trial has become a key irritant in bilateral relations and the two sides had agreed to discuss ways to speed up the prosecution of the seven suspects, including the use of voice samples. Ever since the Indo-Pak talks at Ufa, the cross-border firing has become a regular feature to push-in terrorists by Pakistan. The incidents of infiltration of Jihadis days after the Gurdaspur attack underlined Pakistan’s determination to keep probing Modi government’s threshold for terrorism and test its capacity to devise effective responses to cross-border terror. India has been vindicated in its stand on Pak-sponsored terrorism once again. Now we have to wait for Pakistan’s reaction.
