India says no response from Pakistan on Mumbai attacks dossier
New Delhi - India has not received a reply from Pakistan on its dossier on Mumbai terrorist attacks, Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma said Saturday.
"We will react to the reply when we receive it. We have not yet received it," Sharma was quoted as saying by IANS news agency.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had said on Friday that the country's premier spying agency had shared the findings of its investigation into the Mumbai terrorist attacks with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and this had been passed on to India.
Last Monday, India gave Pakistan, through direct diplomatic channels, material it claimed linked Pakistani elements to the November terrorist attack on Mumbai in which more than 170 people were killed.
"Our position is clear that Pakistan should fulfil the promises it has made to India and the international community ... It has to walk the talk ... It should dismantle the organization and infrastructure that exists there," Sharma said.
Sharma said India had not received any request from Pakistan for consular access to Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist Indian police claim was captured during the attack.
"We have not received any request for consular access so far. Since Kasab is a Pakistani citizen, if Pakistan requests for consular access we will happily give it," Sharma said.
It was the responsibility of Pakistani investigating agencies to collect evidence on the basis of information provided by India, Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in an interview to the Statesman newspaper.
He said India had adequate information and circumstantial evidence that the attacks were planned in Pakistan.
"Our investigations are by no means complete," Mukherjee said. "The attack was initiated, planned and launched in and from Pakistan. It can only be fully exposed by investigations there and these will have to be sincere and detailed no matter where they lead to." (dpa)