Archive · 14 Sep 2026
Pakistan Red Book Omits Details From Two Mumbai Attack Entries
Pakistan published a new list of people wanted for terrorism.
The list includes 19 men connected to the 2008 attacks in Mumbai.
Two men now have less information in their entries than they did in a 2021 version.
Their pictures and links to Lashkar-e-Taiba were removed.
The other 17 men still have fuller profiles.
Some are accused of helping move the attackers by boat, while others are accused of providing money.
Pakistan’s agency says these men have been avoiding arrest for 18 years.
Indian officials say simply naming them is not enough.
They want the people who planned and carried out the attacks to be arrested and brought to justice.
Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency again listed 19 men linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Photographs, Lashkar-e-Taiba affiliations and operational details were removed from the entries for Muhammad Khan and Abdul Rehman.
The updated list retains full profiles for 17 men, including alleged boat crew members and financiers.
The FIA says the 17 men with full profiles have been absconding for 18 years.
Indian officials called the listings without arrests an “eyewash,” while families and India continue to seek accountability for the attacks.
- Who
- Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency listed 19 men linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, including alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba crew members, financiers, handlers and masterminds.
- What
- An updated Red Book retained the names but removed photographs, affiliations and operational details from the entries for Muhammad Khan and Abdul Rehman.
- When
- The updated list was published in November; the attacks took place in November 2008, and the previous cited edition was published in 2021.
- Where
- The attacks occurred in Mumbai, India, while the listed men and alleged support network are connected to Pakistan.
- Why
- The list is intended to identify wanted terrorists, but Indian officials say listings without arrests do not provide justice or adequately address international scrutiny.
Indian Officials and Victims’ Families
Pakistan’s Updated Red Book Record
Whether the listings provide accountability
Indian Officials and Victims’ Families
Indian officials describe listing the men without arresting them as an “eyewash” intended to blunt international scrutiny. Families and India say justice requires perpetrators, planners and masterminds to be brought to justice.
Pakistan’s Updated Red Book Record
The Federal Investigation Agency has included 19 names in its updated Red Book and says the 17 men with full profiles have been absconding for 18 years.
Treatment of the two entries
Indian Officials and Victims’ Families
The removal of Muhammad Khan’s and Abdul Rehman’s photographs, Lashkar-e-Taiba affiliations and operational details raises questions about why their profiles are less complete than in 2021.
Pakistan’s Updated Red Book Record
The updated publication still names both men, although it provides less identifying and operational information than the earlier edition.
- People listed
- 19 men linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks
- Entries changed
- Muhammad Khan and Abdul Rehman lost photographs, Lashkar-e-Taiba affiliations and operational details
- Full profiles retained
- 17 men, described by the Federal Investigation Agency as absconding for 18 years
- Attack death toll
- 166 people were killed
- Attack injuries
- More than 300 people were injured
- Attackers
- 10 terrorists reached Mumbai by sea; nine died and Ajmal Kasab was captured
- Largest cited payment
- Ahmed Saeed of Battagram was said to have provided 2.1 million rupees