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• Mumbai planner's links with the US intelligence to remain under wraps
  
• Indian officials "investigating CIA double-agent claim."
  
• US backtracks on promise to allow Indians interrogate US suspect
  

CIA links to David Coleman Headley, the American facing trial for planning the the terrorist strike in Mumbai in November 2008 in which 166 people were murdered, will remain secret at the insistence of the Obama administration. 

India's Home Ministry officials are now investigating whether the Pakistani-American terror suspect David Coleman Headley was in fact a CIA  "double agent."

Headley's arrest in Chicago last October was initially seen as a breakthrough that would expose how Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Pakistan-based terrorist organization operated in India. Instead the Obama administration has made strenuous efforts to cover up the intelligence details of the case, causing uproar in India.

By Kenneth Roth
As the world's most populous democracy, India might be expected to be at the forefront of global efforts to promote human rights. In the past, India sometimes took a leadership role in defending rights, such as by opposing apartheid in South Africa and supporting the 1988 democracy movement in Burma. However, its current foreign policy often would make a confirmed dictator proud.

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The moral high ground gives way

Meenakshi Ganguly,

Western colonialism collapsed after the Second World War, leaving much of the world in shambles, resources looted, and people suppressed and impoverished. As Indians know all too well, borders of newly independent states were often carelessly drawn, leading to violence that plagues us generations later. Those most affected by these                        decisions never had a voice at the high table.  more

 HRW senior South Asia researcher

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