Bill Roggio at the indispensable Long War Journal has the scoop:

Pakistan’s prime minister fired his national security adviser after he disclosed that the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist is a Pakistani citizen. The move came just hours after the government confirmed the Mumbai attacker was a Pakistani after more than a month of denials.

Mehmud Ali Durrani, Pakistan’s National Security Advisor, was sacked by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani after he gave “a statement to an Indian news channel regarding Ajmal Kasab without taking him into confidence,” Geo News reported. Kasab is the only surviving terrorist behind the late November 2008 military assault on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai. More than 170 people were killed and hundreds were wounded in the assault that closed down the city for three days.

Kasab trained at a Lashkar-e-Taiba camp before undertaking the terrorist operation. Though they do not officially sanction such groups, the heat the Pakistani government is now feeling over LeT’s actions is of its own making, as the Paki ISI helped create and groom the terrorist organization thirty years ago to harass Indian troops and citizens in the disputed Kashmir region.