New Delhi, September 4
India today chided Pakistan for describing its latest dossier on the Mumbai attacks as a rehash of information which was provided to Islamabad in previous dossiers.

Official sources said Pakistan had already admitted that the 26/11 attacks were planned, plotted and executed by its nationals from its soil and should have all the information at its command. “We have regularly given them information and shared evidence with them. We are assisting them in the process of investigations,” they added.

New Delhi, the sources said, would provide more information to Islamabad as and when it was available. “It is for Pakistan to decide what kind of relationship it wants with us. We want them to take open, speedy, transparent and meaningful action against the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks.”

On August 21, India had handed over to Pakistan a sixth dossier on the complicity of elements in Pakistan in the terrible attacks in Mumbai, which claimed more than 170 lives. Both Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit have described the sixth dossier as inadequate.

India says it had given sufficient evidence to Pakistan to prosecute Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafeez Saeed for plotting the Mumbai attacks. Pakistan, however, claims that adequate evidence was not available to proceed against Saeed.

Despite its reluctance to act against the masterminds of the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan wants India to send Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao to Islamabad ahead of the much-anticipated meeting between the Foreign Ministers of the two countries in New York later this month on the margins of the UN General Assembly. India has ruled out Nirupama’s visit.

The meeting between the two Foreign Ministers in New York also could be an exercise in futility if India was not convinced about Islamabad’s sincerity in dealing the Mumbai attackers.