Pakistan Bound to handover Mumbai Culprits: India
Monday, January 5, 2009 at 9:56 pm
NEW DELHI: India said on Monday that not only was the conspiracy behind the Mumbai terrorist attacks hatched in Pakistan, but it was hard to believe that no one in the administration was aware about it.
Addressing the media here, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said that now that India had provided evidence, Pakistan should extend all its assistance to bring the perpetrators to Indian justice.
“India has asked Pakistan to investigate the evidence material given to it on the Mumbai attacks and extend legal assistance so that the perpetrators could be brought to justice,” Menon said.
He claimed that Pakistan was bound to handover the culprits to India as per SAARC charter.
Menon pointed out that the investigation and the evidence it produced has led India to believe that the kind of operation undertaken in Mumbai couldn’t have been planned without someone being in the know.
“Conspiracy behind the crime (in Mumbai) was hatched in Pakistan and hence India has requested Pakistan to fulfil its commitments,” Menon claimed.
He also revealed that India was actively lobbying with all friendly countries around the world so that concrete action is taken against terrorists in Pakistan.
“We have begun the process of briefing foreign countries. Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee has written to his counterparts around the world about the evidence. We have today held special briefings for the ambassadors of those countries whose nationals were killed in Mumbai,” he said.
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