India gives Mumbai-attack findings to Pakistan

Washington Post

NEW DELHI, India — India handed over to Pakistan on Monday key findings from its investigations into the deadly November attacks in Mumbai and said it expected credible action against those named in the report “as quickly as possible.”

India’s foreign secretary, Shiv Shankar Menon, said that the material in the detailed dossier of evidence ties the gunmen who carried out the attacks to “elements in Pakistan” and added that Islamabad was obliged to extradite those responsible.

At a news conference Monday, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee called the three-day siege, in which more than 170 people were killed, an “unpardonable” act, and he urged Pakistan’s government to honor its promise to crack down on groups that foment violence against India.

In a written statement, the Foreign Ministry said India hopes that the government in Islamabad will “undertake further investigations in Pakistan and share the results with us so as to bring the perpetrators to justice.”

India has accused the banned Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar-i-Taiba of planning and directing the assault on two luxury hotels, a train station, a Jewish cultural center and other sites in Mumbai. Six Americans were among those killed. Pakistan has offered to participate in a joint probe and detained several members of the group — steps that India has dismissed as cosmetic.

Indian officials said the file conveyed to Pakistan contains material from the extensive interrogation of the lone surviving gunman, Ajmal Amir Kasab, who is in Indian custody.