Pakistan is ready to formally respond within a week to the dossier of evidence handed over by New Delhi on Mumbai terror strikes, after alleged minute examination by the authorities.
The response is likely to be cool and would speak the same line as Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has already publicly announced: scanty and insufficient, and more informative rather than evidence.
Pakistan response is almost prepared after prolonged consultations among the foreign office, interior ministry and security agencies in Islamabad and is being given the final touch; a Pakistani daily quoted a senior Pak Official, as saying, who said on condition of anonymity.
The official allegedly added that the Indian dossier was examined very minutely by the Pakistani authorities and would be handed over to the New Delhi in a week after approval of the President and Prime Minister.
The official denied to unveil details of the Pakistani response, but firmly rejected to accept the Indian dossier as evidence against Pakistan, terming it scanty and insufficient. New Delhi would be asked to extend concrete evidence and not information, he added, because the information could not be admissible before the court of law as a piece of evidence.
The paper quoting the official thus says the only workable solution to reduce the escalating tension between the two countries, is to probe jointly into the Mumbai attacks. Pakistan would once again offer India joint probe, the official added.
Gilani had virtually dismissed last week India’s dossier claiming the material provided by India on the Mumbai strikes were mere information and not evidence.
“All that has been received formally from India is some information. I say information because these are not the evidence. This needs to be carefully examined,” he said while making a statement in the National Assembly on the dossier handed over to Pakistan by New Delhi.
The dossier of incriminating materials from the probe into the Mumbai strikes included information on interrogations, confession of Ajmal Kasab-the lone captured terrorist, weapons and other articles recovered from Kasab and other killed terrorists that bear the inscription “Made in Pakistan”, and telephone intercepts between the attackers and their Lashkar-e-Taiba handlers in Pakistan.
|
|
Comments:
