By IANS,
New Delhi: Cautiously welcoming Pakistan’s ban on militant outfits, India Thursday asked Islamabad to take action against those involved in the Mumbai attacks, including Hafiz Saeed, and sought details about the Interpol’s alert for 13 suspects wanted by Pakistan police in connection with the Mumbai attacks.
“(The imposition of) ban is a very good step as it has been reported. We have given information regarding Hafiz Saeed, founder of Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD) to Pakistan,” Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor told reporters outside parliament.
The Pakistan government presented a list of 25 banned organisations in the National Assembly Wednesday, which included JuD, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) that are suspected to be involved in many terror attacks in India, including the Nov 26 attacks in Mumbai.
“We need to see what the follow-up action is,” Tharoor said.
Pakistan should also act on its commitment to dismantle terror infrastructure on its soil, he said.
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao added that the government has sought more information from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad on the issue.
Pakistan banned the JuD after the UN Security Council declared it a front for the outlawed LeT in December last year. The LeT and JeM were banned by the country in 2002.
Official sources here also rejected Pakistan’s contention that the information provided so far by India on the Mumbai attacks was not enough for it to take legal action against JuD chief Hafiz Saeed.
“We have provided evidence five times against Saeed. This should be enough for them to act,” one of the sources said while pointing to the latest seven-page dossier India handed over to the Pakistan high commission last week that reinforced Saeed’s alleged complicity in the Mumbai attacks.
Meanwhile, the Indian high commission in Islamabad has sought details of the global alert sounded by the Interpol’s National Central Bureau (NCB) in Islamabad for 13 suspects wanted by the Pakistan police in connection with the Mumbai attacks.
The alert asks the Interpol member-countries to assist in locating the fugitives and immediately notify NCB Islamabad and the Interpol headquarters in Lyon with any investigative leads.
If the fugitives are located, Pakistani authorities will then formally request provisional arrest with a view towards extradition, in accordance with any applicable extradition treaty, the Interpol said.
Sent via the agency’s I-24/7 secure police communications network to all member-countries, the alert – called a diffusion – contains the fugitives’ names and other nominal data.