The Christian Science Monitor rounds up prevalent punditry to make the case that the seemingly slow progress in acting against the perpetrators of 26/11 is in fact the best all parties can do right now.

India, the article points out, cannot give Pakistan actionable intelligence [to cite just one reason, intelligence handed over is a clue to the investigation itself -- and if passed on to jihadi outfits, a valuable guide to what mistakes to avoid next time]. And similarly, absent an extradition treaty, Pakistan cannot legally send arrested terrorists to India to stand trial.

A comprehensive look at the actions and reactions post 26/11, all of which dovetail to one central point: the more India and the US attempt to act against the sponsors of 26/11, the more Pakistan is pushed to breaking point.

The former RAW officer with the encyclopaediac memory is everyone’s go-to guy when it comes to questions on terrorism. Here, a fairly comprehensive FAQ from B Raman on 26/11, and the players involved.

Pakistan squares up to the biggest crisis it has faced in a contemporary history riddled with crises. Is President Asif Ali Zardari the man for this crucial moment, asks the LA Times.

Out of Pakistan, the meme is that Jamaat-ud-Dawa is a charity. The Independent reports on how ‘charities’ are used to indoctrinate their students.

From Haaretz.com:

Muslims the world over have recognized that the
jihadi is a terrible threat to Islam. The world has seen that the
jihadi, in hating the Jew, the Christian, the Hindu, the Muslim of
another denomination, has become - like the Nazi - the enemy of all
peoples everywhere.

The jihadi shows his love of death in brutality, sadistic
executions, the self-righteous calm of the premeditated mass murderer,
the blaming of the victim for the crime.

One lesson of the Holocaust is that one can’t afford to miss the signs and the intentions.

My father’s uncle saw them in time. At the time, Mumbai was his salvation.

I’m only seeing it now.

From the LA Times, this story of the LeT’s global recruitment efforts, and one of the key figures in this effort.

Khan grew up in the large Pakistani immigrant community of the
industrial city of Bradford. At age 12, he was already immersed in the
rage and gore of extremist websites, according to trial evidence.

Khan helped form a global crew of several dozen young men who met on
radical Islamic forums on the Internet. Most have since been arrested.
They include two American college students in Atlanta now charged with
terrorism, a Toronto man on trial on charges of plotting to attack the
Canadian Parliament, and a Moroccan Al Qaeda computer expert convicted
last year of ties to bomb plots in London, Copenhagen and Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina. A defendant convicted along with Khan was 15 when
they first met.

“Aabid Khan was very much the ‘Mr Fix-it’ of the
group,” said Karen Jones, a supervising prosecutor of the Crown
Prosecution Service Counter Terrorism Division, in a news release
after the August verdict. “He preyed on vulnerable young people and
turned them into recruits to his cause, using Internet chat to lure
them in, then incite them to fight. He arranged their passage to
Pakistan for terrorism training, and talked about a ‘worldwide battle.’
“

The group spent untold hours spewing hate. “You dont know how
much fury i have towards these american dogs,” Khan wrote in an online
chat, according to court records.

In 2005, Khan began
organizing travel to training camps run by Lashkar-e-Taiba and an
allied group, Jaish-e-Muhammad, near the border of the disputed
territory of Kashmir. It was easier and safer to connect with the
Pakistani groups than the secretive compounds of Al Qaeda’s
Arabic-speaking operatives.

Although Lashkar was officially
banned in 2002, Khan’s crew was convinced that Pakistani authorities
tolerated its anti-India guerrilla campaign and permitted its camps,
schools and offices to function, according to trial evidence.

Michael Krepon, co-founder of
the Stimson Center and a visiting professor at
the University of Virginia, and Shuja Nawaz, a former Pakistani
journalist and author of Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Armies and the War Within, discuss — text and video — the fall out of 26/11.

The beleaguered Barkha Dutt gets support from the novelist/columnist.

If Pakistan is to deliver on the demand that the perpetrators and their backers be arrested and handed over, the task will fall to one man: Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha. Newsweek’s mini profile.

More: An NYT story at the time of his announcement; an earlier Newsweek story about the mystery man; Pasha’s Wiki entry.