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No feedback on terror attack dossier - Mukherjee
Foreign minister says New Delhi's action appreciated by international community.
- IANS
- Published: 23:41 January 11, 2009
Lalgola, West Bengal: There has been no response from Islamabad to a dossier detailing the involvement of Pakistan-based militants in the Mumbai terror attack, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here on Sunday.
"We've not yet received any official communication from Pakistan till Saturday. We have already given all documents on the matter to Pakistan," Mukherjee told reporters after attending a Congress rally in Lalgola, about 220 km north of Kolkata, in Murshidabad district of West Bengal.
"But, I don't know if they [Pakistan] have sent anything today [Sunday]," he said.
Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon had last week handed over a 52-page dossier of evidence on the November 26 attacks to Pakistan's High Commissioner Shahid Malik.
Pakistani officials, however, maintain they have briefed Indian authorities after receiving the dossier. "India has given 52 pages [the dossier] to the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] and our ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] has given its feedback and [the necessary] information. That has been passed on to India," Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday.
Mukherjee said India had sent the dossier to various countries.
"All of them praised the action that we've taken in the Mumbai terror attack," he said.
"The conspiracy for the attack had been hatched in Pakistan and thus the neighbouring country has to probe activities of the elements involved in planning the strike."
Spying: ISI operative arrested
A court in Uttar Pradesh yesterday sent Ameer Ahmad, a suspected agent of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to 14 days in judicial custody, police said.
Ahmad was produced before a chief judicial magistrate's court in Meerut after being arrested on Saturday from the city's Sadar locality with documents relating to the Indian Army.
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