India says Pakistan given Mumbai evidence

New Delhi: India on Monday handed over to Pakistan the evidence linking Pakistan-based militants to the Mumbai carnage and ratcheted up international pressure on Islamabad to eliminate terror infrastructure.

"We have today given evidence to Pakistan of links between elements in Pakistan and the terrorists who attacked Mumbai," External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters on Monday morning.

Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon handed over to Pakistan's High Commissioner Shahid Malek the material linking the November 26 Mumbai attack to elements in Pakistan. The evidence includes material from the interrogation of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the Pakistani national who is in police custody and was the only terrorist to be captured alive in Mumbai.

Confiscated weapons

It also includes details of the terrorists' communication links with elements in Pakistan during the Mumbai attack.

The evidence shared also included recovered weapons, equipment and other articles and data retrieved from recovered GPS and satellite phones of the Mumbai attackers.

"It is our expectation that the government of Pakistan will promptly undertake further investigations in Pakistan and share the results with us so as to bring the perpetrators to justice," Mukherjee said.

"We would also hope that Pakistan will implement her bilateral, multilateral and international obligations to prevent terrorism in any manner from territory under her control," he said.

Mukherjee underlined that he has written to his counterparts across the world, sharing evidence of the complicity of elements in Pakistan in the Mumbai attacks.

New Delhi: India's government said that it had handed over evidence on the Mumbai attacks to Pakistan on Monday, and it expected a prompt investigation.

"The material is linked to elements in Pakistan. It is our expectation that the Government of Pakistan will promptly undertake further investigations," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

A coordinated strike by 10 gunmen killed scores in Mumbai in November. India blames it on a Pakistan-based terror group.

Indian Home Minister P. Chidamabaram on Sunday said India will present the United States with "evidence" proving that Pakistani "state-actors" were involved in the attacks.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Sadiq said on Monday the authorities are reviewing the evidence and declined to comment further.