Pakistani Army colonel 'was involved' in Mumbai terror attacks

The 11,200-page document listing the charges against Azam Amir Kasab, the sole gunman to be captured alive, includes the name of Colonel R Sadatullah, who is thought by the Indian police to be a serving officer in the Pakistan Army’s Special Communications Organisation, an offshoot of the force’s signals corps.

The naming of the colonel represents the most specific allegation of involvement of an individual with a link to the Pakistani state in the Mumbai atrocities yet made by India. The move will place an additional strain on the troubled relationship between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

It is understood that Colonel Sadatullah has been implicated through the tracing of an official government e-mail account linked to him that was used to send at least one message related to the attacks.