Islamabad, Jan 16 : Pakistan has shared with the United States the list and other details of persons arrested in connection with the Mumbai terror attacks.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's adviser on Interior Affairs Rehman Malik said that so far the Pakistani authorities have arrested 124 people.

"We have got a list of the arrested people," Dawn quoted a US diplomat, as saying.

The exchange was done by the security agencies directly without involving the Foreign Office, the sources said.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Office on Thursday said that a FIA led inquiry team has been constituted by the Interior Ministry to probe the matter.

New Delhi, Jan 16 : Instead of being informed through the media, the Indian Government would be happy to receive a direct response from Pakistan through diplomatic channels for appropriate action as for the terror attacks in Mumbai.

These views of India were spelt out by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee while speaking to media persons here last evening.

He was reacting to the statements of Interior Advisor of Pakistan in the media, assuring India of unconditional support in the Mumbai attacks probe.

Washington, Jan 16 : Pakistan has admitted that US drone attacks on its tribal areas bordering Afghanistan have become more accurate in past few months, leading to the death of eight ai Qaeda militants and decline in civilian casualties.

Among those killed was the mastermind of a 2006 plot to detonate liquid explosives aboard planes flying across the Atlantic, and the man thought to have planned the Septembr 20 bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, that killed 53 people, including two members of the US military.

"The strikes have become increasingly accurate," The Washington Times quoted a senior Pakistani official, as saying on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject.

Lahore, Jan 16 : The Indian `dossier of evidence' provided to Pakistan on the Mumbai terror attacks on November 26 alleges that all 10 gunmen involved in the attacks were Pakistani nationals, nine from the Punjab province and one from the North West Frontier Province.

The Mumbai attackers were in the age group of 21 to 28 years, according to the information in the dossier based on Indian investigation of the attacks and interrogation of the lone surviving gunman Ajmal Kasab, the Daily Times reported.

Islamabad, Jan. 16 : Fuming over the government's decision to give the highest national honour of the country to the US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher, cricketer turned politician, and the chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan has said that he will surrender the Hilal-e-Pakistan award in protest.

Islamabad, Jan 16 : Pakistani "terror suspect" Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is on trial in the United States, has alleged that one of the interrogators at the Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan was an Indian.

According to a report prepared by the by Pakistan Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Dr Aafia has narrated her entire story to a delegation of the committee that went to see her, telling them how she was arrested from Pakistan and later shifted to Bagram.