Srinagar: The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) on Thursday accused Pakistan of implicating its men in the Mumbai terror attacks to "win appreciation" from India and the US.
The terror outfit that fights the India Army in Jammu and Kashmir but is based in Pakistan angrily condemned Islamabad's filing of a case against some of the group's top operatives.
Pakistan admitted for the first time that the attacks, which killed 170 people, were planned partly on its soil and lodged a first information report (FIR) against eight suspects including top operative Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi.
"Pakistan has surrendered before India," the LeT's spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi said in a press statement here.
"The LeT was not behind the Mumbai terror attack at all," Ghaznavi claimed.
The Pakistan FIR, Ghaznavi said, was filed to "win appreciation from India and the US".
He said the case registered against the LeT was to "implement India's agenda of suppressing the people's struggle for freedom in Kashmir".
"We strongly condemn the lodging of the FIR against LeT,' Ghaznavi said.
The militant group has been repeatedly denying any involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
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