India to Funnel More 26/11 Info to Pakistan

India on Tuesday agreed to provide more information to Pakistan over the gruesome 26/11 terror carnage in Mumbai, but said that Islamabad should desist from delaying the probe on pretext of clarifications, the move came a day after the neighbouring country sought more specific on the attacks allegedly launched from its territories.

“I have just had a discussion with our foreign secretary. We have received the papers (from Pakistan). We are examining them and if there be further information necessary, then we will give them the further information,” external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee was quoted as saying to newsmen in New Delhi.

Continuing to push for more credible action against the perpetrators of the attack, Mukherjee said that the important issue was for Pakistan to have and reflect an intention to bring those guilty for the carnage to book.

“The matter should not be delayed on this or that issue, or on this or that clarification. We are prepared to give them any information that they want, provided we have the information,” he added.

Pakistan has repeatedly attempted to employ rope-a-dope tactics to shun liability over the attacks, during which one of its citizens was captured alive by Indian security personnel, and its latest request for more was largely being viewed as an attempt to buy time before India goes into staggered month long elections.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said India has furnished Pakistan with enough information on the Mumbai terror attack and it was for Islamabad to act on it.

Pakistan’s interior minister Rahman Malik on Monday said that investigators had not been furnished with sufficient information by New Delhi and implied that India had supplied duplicate DNA reports for two of the ten attackers responsible for the gruesome that left over 180 dead and hundreds of others injured apart from the colossal damage done to the infrastructure.