RAW begins investigation over fake terror report

The Indian media earlier issued a news report claiming that five Pakistani nationals associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had entered Mumbai and planned to carry out an attack similar to 2008 Mumbai attack.The said persons were identified as Pakistani traders and were later broadcast on Dunya news.According to Indian media reports, the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), the external intelligence agency, which passed on photographs of Pakistani traders as that of terror suspects planning to attack India, has sought explanations from its handler who generated the alert.The bid to fix responsibility in the embarrassing episode comes even as Dunya news continued to report that it has identified all the five men, whose photographs were issued to various state polices as suspects, who are in India to carry out terror strikes.The photos have been an embarrassment after Pakistani media exposed that of the three suspected terrorists - two are local traders and another works as a security guard in Lahore. On Saturday, Pakistani media reports identified the remaining two too as well. Amjad Ali Khan works at a cellphone shop in Lahores Hafeez Centre, while Nadeem Malik runs a cell phone business in the same city.