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Indian Minister says terror dossier has got no reply
India said on Saturday that it has not received any response from Pakistan on the Mumbai terrorist attack dossier it handed over six days ago and underlined that Islamabad is obliged under international conventions to hand over the suspects to New Delhi.
- IANS
- Published: 23:35 January 10, 2009
New Delhi: India said on Saturday that it has not received any response from Pakistan on the Mumbai terrorist attack dossier it handed over six days ago and underlined that Islamabad is obliged under international conventions to hand over the suspects to New Delhi.
"I will only comment after receiving the reply," Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma told reporters when asked whether New Delhi has received any response to the dossier linking Pakistan-based elements to the Mumbai carnage.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday said New Delhi had sent a 52-page dossier "through the CIA", and the ISI had already given its feedback on this to the US intelligence agency, and "this has been passed on to India".
Indian officials, who did not wish to be named, said they were not aware of any dossier handed to Pakistan through the CIA.
Pakistan has yet to respond formally to the dossier Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon gave to Pakistan's High Commissioner Shahid Malek last Monday.
Three days after Pakistan admitted to the Pakistani nationality of Mohammad Ajmal Amir alias Kasab, the lone Mumbai attacker in Indian custody, Sharma said it would have been in the interest of India and the region if Pakistan had accepted this earlier.
"From day one it was clear who they were and where they came from," Sharma told reporters on the sidelines of a function organised by the external affairs ministry to commemorate World Hindi Day.
He was referring to the 10 gunmen who, India has maintained, came from Pakistan. Nine of them were killed by Indian commandos.
"It would have been in the interest of India and the region and would have created a conducive environment if Pakistan had not gone into denial mode and accepted [the nationality] and cooperated," he said.
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