Pakistan admits it was Lashkar in Mumbai

According to the WSJ, from the information Pakistan has gathered, there can now be no denying that Lashkar e Taiba carried out the Mumbai attacks.

Pakistani security officials say a top Lashkar commander, Zarar Shah, has admitted a role in the Mumbai attack during interrogation, according to the security official....

The person said Mr. Shah had implicated other Lashkar members, and had broadly confirmed the story told by the sole captured gunman to Indian investigators -- that the 10 assailants trained in Pakistan's part of Kashmir and then went by boat from Karachi to Mumbai. Mr. Shah said the attackers also spent at least a few weeks in Karachi, a crowded Arabian Sea port, training in urban combat to hone skills they would use in their assault.

So the question becomes, what now? Does Pakistan extradite these guys to India? Can they against the ISI and likely popular opposition? Do they try to prosecute them in Pakistan with its history of light sentences and releases in cases like this?

This is really messy for the Zardari government.