By IANS,
Islamabad/New Delhi : Pakistani investigators are set to forward to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani their report of the probe into the Mumbai terror carnage that India blames on elements operating from Pakistan, reports in Islamabad said Saturday. According to the reports, Pakistan’s law and interior ministries had vetted the results of the probe by the Federal Investigation Agency on the basis of a dossier India had provided Jan 5 pointing to the involvement of the Laskher-e-Taiba terror group in the Mumabi attacks.
The results of the probe would now be sent to the prime minister, who is likely to hand it over to Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Satyabrata Pal, the reports added.
Responding to the development, India Saturday asked Pakistan to honour its commitments on prosecuting the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks.
“Everyone knows which organisations were involved (in the Mumbai carnage). It is for Pakistan to honour not only the assurances and commitments it has given to the international community and to India, but Pakistan as a nation state must also respect the international law,” Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma told reporters in New Delhi.
“The entire world is watching Pakistan and by obfuscating and deflecting, Pakistan can only hit its low credibility,” Sharma added.
Meanwhile, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has once again blamed non-state actors for the Mumbai mayhem and said they would not be permitted to dictate their agenda and rewrite the sub-continent’s foreign policy.
“He said that non state actors responsible for the Mumbai blasts wanted to dictate their own agenda and rewrite the foreign policies of Pakistan and India which would not be permitted,” Dawn News channel reported Saturday.
Zardari was speaking at a reception in North West Frontier Province capital Peshawar Friday night that provincial ministers and senior government officials, among others, attended.
Zardari has often said in the past that non-state actors were responsible for the Mumbai carnage and that it was Pakistan’s responsibility to act against them.
“Yes, definitely. I do not shrug away from that position,” he told Newsweek magazine in December, adding: “Anybody from my soil is my responsibility”.
However, the only action that Islamabad has taken is to seal the offices of the Jamaat-ud Daawa, the morphed version of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
More than 170 people, 26 of them foreigners, were killed in the Nov 26-29 Mumbai carnage that also injured over 300.