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Pakistan to release Mumbai probe findings
President Asif Ali Zardari says Pakistan will disclose findings of its investigations into the terror on India's financial hub within days. "A report on the preliminary investigation would be forwarded to India in two to three days," the Dawn newspaper quoted Zardari as saying during a Tuesday dinner with foreign diplomats in Islamabad. Zardari said Pakistan was 'seriously conducting the probe' and urged the diplomats to play their role in defusing tensions 'for the sake of peace' in the troubled region. On January 5, India provided Pakistan with data from satellite phones used by the attackers as well as what it describes as the 'confession of a surviving gunman'. Pakistani Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, however, said the evidence provided by India on the Mumbai attacks constituted 'information' and not legally binding evidence. Pakistan's Interior Ministry Chief Rehman Malik announced on January 17 that the dossier was being seriously examined and the initial probe would be completed within 10 days, a deadline that has passed. Malik, however, held a meeting on Tuesday to review the investigation's progress. Following the meeting the deadline was extended by two days. Washington, New Delhi, and London hold Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based militant group responsible for the Mumbai attacks that killed at least 179 people, including the nine militants conducting the assault. Zardari has rejected the involvement of his government in the attacks saying that 'non-state actors' were involved in the incident. Pakistan has cracked down on LeT and its charity front, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, arresting several militants leaders and closing down its offices and camps across the country. Posted by: Fred 2009-01-29 |
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