Pak Punjab governor told on phone about Mumbai attacks: Vaidik

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Pak Punjab governor told on phone about Mumbai attacks: Vaidik
NEW DELHI: Hindi Press columnist Ved Pratap Vaidik could be on a verge of starting another controversy after Mail Today on Tuesday gained access to a video of his speech, in which he claimed Pakistan's Punjab governor called him up to inform him about the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

"Mumbai mein jab aatankwaadiyo ne kabja kiya hamare hotel par toh sabse pehle Lahore se governor ne phone kara mujhe aur bole ki TV on kijiye… hamare yaha ke gunday aapke yahan ghus gaye hain… maine kaha apkey gunday? Bole ki who jo boli bol rahe hain who hamari hi boli hai jaise ki Punjabiyo ki hoti hai… aap prime minister se kahiye ki unn par sakht karyawahi kare… who Lahore ke hain toh iska matlab yeh nahi ki hamare agent hai..."

(When terrorists captured a hotel in Mumbai, the Lahore governor called me up and said… please switch on your TV… hooligans from our country have entered your territory… I asked your hooligans? He said, the language they are speaking is of Punjabis (Sindh)... you tell your prime minister to take strict actions against them… just because they are from Lahore, it doesn't mean that they are our agents…" Vedik said, while addressing a symposium 'Bharat Ke Bhavishya Ki Rajniti' (Politics of India's Future) on January 4, this year, at Agar Malwa district headquarters in Madhya Pradesh.

Vedik refers to November 26, 2008, when terrorists executed an intricate attack on India's financial and entertainment capital, Mumbai.

Vedik, in the video clip, further talks about his relationship with the people of Pakistan.

"Yeh sab prem hai… Hamare padosiyo ke saath hamare sambandh aise hone chahiye ki agar jhagda bhi kare to uski garima ho… (This is all love… our relationship with our neighbours should be such that even when we fight, there should be pride in it…)," he tells his audience at the symposium.

Vedik is already under attack from the Congress ever since the information of his "hour-long conversation with Hafiz Muhammad Saeed " - the leader of Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the one of the main accused in the planning and plotting of the Mumbai terror attacks - was made public.