Mumbai investigations shows UPA's apathy towards terror: BJP

New Delhi, Sep 30 (UNI) Reacting to Mumbai Police's revelations of ISI's hand in the July 11 blasts, the BJP today said there was a 'clear disconnection' between the internal security situation and the foreign policy pursued by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Havana.

BJP General Secretary Arun Jaitley said it was clear that the blasts were the conspiracy of the ISI executed through Lashkar-e-Toiba.

It was hatched in Pakistan's Bhawalpur from where the RDX and terrorists entered India to create trouble in the financial capital of the country by planting bombs in suburban trains to claim lives of over 200 people.

He congratulated Mumbai Police Commissioner for unravelling the conspiracy. However he said these disclosures had raised several questions.

He said it was natural that the Centre and the Prime Minister were aware of the direction in which the Mumbai blasts case was proceeding in July itself.

''However, his statements at Havana giving a clean chit to Pakistan, recognising that it was also a victim of terror and that some autonomous groups operated in that country and a joint mechanism to tackle terror had severely compromised national interests,'' Mr Jaitley said. How could he trust that this mechanism would help deal with terror?'' he said.

Referring to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's plea for clemency for Mohammad Afzal, one of those found guilty in the Parliament attack case and the ambivalent posture of the Congress on the issue, the BJP General Secretary said, ''earlier there was suspicion that the UPA government was soft on terror but now the nation is convinced that it is also sympathetic to the cause of terrorists and the internal security was not safe in its hands.'' He asked the Government to tell the nation how the joint mechanism would work with Pakistan which had dismissed Mumbai Police's investigation as a bundle of lies.

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