Pak officials meet on response to Indian dossier
Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 5:01 am
Top Pakistani officials held a meeting on Saturday (Jan 10) to review and frame a response to the information dossier provided by India on the Mumbai terror attacks. Officials of the interior and foreign ministries and some security agencies met at the Foreign Office to review the Indian dossier and to formulate a response, sources said.
The dossier comprising confession of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested for the Mumbai attacks, transcripts of phone conversations between the attackers and their Pakistan-based handlers and other technical evidence was handed over to Pakistan on January 5.
Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani yesterday said that Pakistan’s ISI has given to India its “feedback” on information about the Mumbai attacks that was shared by the US.
Diplomatic sources said that US Vice President-elect Joseph Biden had told Pakistani officials during a visit to Islamabad yesterday that Pakistan should cooperate with India in probing the Mumbai incident in the “wider interests of international security”.
Biden informed Pakistani leaders that India had given “enough evidence” about the Mumbai attacks, the sources said. The incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama would like to see “visible action” by Pakistan against the perpetrators of the attacks, Biden said.
India has blamed Pakistan-based elements and official agencies for planning and executing the Mumbai attacks that killed over 180 people. After continued denial, Pakistan acknowledged this week that a preliminary investigation had established that Kasab is a Pakistani national. Islamabad has said its own probe into the Mumbai incident is continuing.
(With inputs from agencies)
( This post is from an independent writer. The opinions and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not endorsed by APakistanNews.Com.)
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