In a classified and a highly secured facility, 5 members of the a terrorist organization were taken to trial in a court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in what has been termed as Islamabad’s first steps towards taking concrete actions against the perpetrators who had been identified by both Indian and the United States authorities, as the plotters of the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, that claimed 160 lives.

The five members on trial have been associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terrorist outfit that is known to have been operating from within Pakistan and has been blamed for several high profile attacks on Indian soil. The trail took place in an undisclosed location, due to security reasons. Pakistan has stated that, it is completely willing to prosecute the terror outfit’s members and would shows the international community that, even its military, that was known to have ties with this organization, has nothing to do with Lashkar-e-Taiba anymore.

The Lashkar-e-Taiba is believed to have 150,000 members and according to security experts, Pakistani citizens harbor a great deal of sympathy and appreciation for this outfit’s activities, thereby making it even more difficult to materialize any plans of dismantling the organization once and for all. According to Pakistani intelligence agency officials, ISI or Inter-Services Intelligence, that is Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency believes that Lashkar-e-Taiba and another high-profile terror outfit, Jaish-e-Muhammad together, could pose a very serious threat to the national security of Pakistan and are very much capable of destabilizing the nation.

Via New York Times.