Mumbai, Holbrooke and PML-N

In a country where cases of murders of national leaders have remained uninvestigated, it is remarkable how the complex case of the alleged Mumbai attack accused has been so quickly and almost conclusively probed and startling disclosures made. Interior Advisor, Rehman Malik, in his press briefing left little doubt that the attack was (partially) planned in Pakistan.
He gave details of the operation citing names, the boats used, those involved in training of the culprits, their linkages, how they reached Mumbai and how the international money was transferred from Italy. The Indian government which for the last many weeks had been putting unrelenting pressure on the Pakistani government and threatening of dire consequences if the required action was not taken expeditiously, is jubilant having succeeded in securing the admission that the terrorist attack came from Pakistan.
Home Minister found the Pakistani response "positive" and Foreign Minister Mukherjee will be making a formal statement in the Parliament. He however has repeated his call for the dismantling of the infrastructure of terror in Pakistan. It will now be easier for New Delhi to convince the international community that Pakistan is indeed, as Manmohan Singh said sometime back, "the epicentre of international terrorism."
India may also assert that most of the earlier terrorist acts inside the country were linked to terrorist organisations in Pakistan. As already suggested by one of the Indian functionaries, the next step on its part could be to link the state of Pakistan and specifically ISI with the November 26 incident. One may assume that "evidence" to this effect is already being prepared.
Is it possible that the said admission and disclosures were made hurriedly under pressure when a high level American visitor was in Pakistan as has been suggested by a defence and political analyst? Also did Obama's call to Zardari have anything to do with the decision to make the mentioned disclosures before waiting for additional information asked for, from India?
The week witnessed President Obama's special envoy's arrival in Pakistan. Richard Holbrooke has been tasked to examine how American policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan could be redesigned to achieve Washington's objectives in these countries. He spent four very busy days in Pakistan and is presently in Kabul. He will also be visiting India.
Holbrooke's visit has been described as one of orientation and exploration. Mr Holbrooke met the president, prime minister, chief of the army staff, Nawaz Sharif and the Q league leaders. He also visited Peshawar and Landikotal.
To understand Holbrooke's mission one has to read what Obama said in his first press conference as president of USA, last Monday: "The bottomline is that we cannot allow Al-Qaeda to operate...We cannot have those safe havens in that region...What we haven't seen is the kind of concerted effort to root out these safe havens...That would ultimately make our mission successful...It is not acceptable for Pakistan or for US to have folks who, with impurity, will kill innocent men, women and children. And you know I believe that the new government of Pakistan cares deeply about getting control of this situation and we want to be effective partners with them on that issue." Holbrooke was in the region "to deliver a message to Pakistan that they are endangered as we are by the continuation of those operations." The president reinforced this message when he spoke to Zardari on the telephone (while his special representation was in Pakistan). Holbrooke didn't say much publicly in Pakistan. What transpired in his meeting with Zardari, Gilani and Kiyani will determine to a large extent, the future shape of US-Pakistan relationship with regard to American war on "terrorism" in Afghanistan and Pakistan.