By IANS,
Karachi/Bangalore : Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Saturday that delay in resuming India-Pakistan talks will only help terrorists in achieving their nefarious designs.
Pakistan wants equity-based relations with India and resumption of the composite dialogue at the earliest, he said, while speaking to reporters in Karachi after inaugurating a housing scheme for low income people.
India had frozen the composite dialogue process in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks that New Delhi has blamed on elements operating from Pakistan.
New Delhi has consistently maintained that the talks could resume only after Islamabad took tangible action against the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage that claimed the lives of over 170 people, including 26 foreigners.
India has also said it has provided Pakistan with adequate evidence of the involvement of its nationals in the Nov 26-29, 2008 attacks that held the city to ransom for over 60 hours.
India reiterated this Saturday, with External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna saying Pakistan had been given “enough proof” to prosecute Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) leaders for masterminding the Mumbai terror attacks.
“Our dossier(s) contain enough proof to nail the (Mumbai attack) accused,” Krishna told reporters in Bangalore.
“We have the names (of terrorists) involved in the Mumbai attacks and have sent them to Pakistan and it is but natural that they should be arrested and punished accordingly,” he maintained.
India has given six dossiers to Pakistan over the attacks. LeT chief Hafiz Saeed is viewed as the mastermind of the carnage.
Saeed had been placed under house arrest in December after the UN proscribed the Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) that the LeT had morphed into after being banned after the Dec 13, 2001 terror attack on the Indian parliament that was blamed on the terror group.
The Lahore High Court had freed him in June, citing insufficient evidence to warrant his continued detention.
The Pakistani Supreme Court has indefinitely put off a hearing of a plea against Saeed’s release.