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Islamabad wants to see evidence against terror group

Pakistan on Friday pressed India to share evidence from the Mumbai attacks, warning that efforts to prosecute key suspects rounded up in Pakistan will be hamstrung without it.

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  • Published: 00:39 December 13, 2008
  • Gulf News

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday pressed India to share evidence from the Mumbai attacks, warning that efforts to prosecute key suspects rounded up in Pakistan will be hamstrung without it.

India says Pakistan must dismantle the militant group blamed for last month's attack, which left 173 dead, including nine gunmen, and raised tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals.

Pakistan, under pressure from the US to avoid a crisis that would divert Islamabad from battling the Taliban and Al-Qaida on its Afghan border, has arrested two alleged masterminds of the assault.

On Thursday, it clamped down on an Islamic charity after the UN branded it a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based guerrilla group blamed for the Mumbai attacks.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmoud Qureshi said yesterday that Pakistan firmly believed its territory should not be used to commit any act of terrorism.

"However, our own investigations cannot proceed beyond a certain point without provision of credible information and evidence pertaining to Mumbai attacks," Qureshi said in a televised statement.

Indian authorities have released the names and Pakistani hometowns of the 10 gunmen who assailed India's commercial capital. Having interrogated the lone gunman captured alive, Indian investigators allege that the gunmen were trained in camps in Pakistan.

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