PC presses for action against Saeed during meetings with Malik

Ajay Kaul
Islamabad, Jun 26 (PTI) India has provided Pakistan
further details about involvement of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief
Hafiz Saeed in Mumbai terror attacks on the basis of
disclosures made by Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba
operative David Headley and made it clear that action against
him and other handlers would be a major confidence building
measure.
During the meetings between Home Minister P
Chidambaram and his Pakistani counterpart Rahman Malik which
went on till late Friday night, the Indian side also gave a
list of other terror activities emanating from Pakistan and
cross-border violations, sources said.
The Indian side gave a list of Pakistanis killed in
Jammu and Kashmir in the last few months, they said.
Chidambaram, the first Indian Home Minister to visit
Pakistan in three decades, and Malik held formal talks for
about two hours and continued the discussions for about 90
minutes at a dinner hosted by the Pakistan Interior Minister.
Chidambaram made it clear that Pakistan needed to act
with urgency against all those responsible for the Mumbai
attacks and identified in the 11 dossiers that India has
handed over since the attacks in November 2008, sources said.
He told Malik that action against all those behind the
Mumbai attacks would be a major confidence-building measure.
The Indian side referred to Saeed and gave more details about
his involvement on the basis of interrogation of Headley, they
said.
Headley has confessed to having conducted recce of the
targets of 26/11 and named Saeed as one of his handlers.
India is not satisfied by the way investigation and
trial is being conducted in Pakistan in the Mumbai attacks
case. It wants Pakistan to identify and punish all the
handlers of Mumbai attacks besides expediting trial.
Earlier, Chidambaram had said that Pakistan can surely
give voice samples of handlers as it is universally
acknowledged that handlers were in Pakistan.
"We think we know who the handlers were. Surely, they
can give us voice samples. We have recordings on our side."
When asked whether India will accept Pakistan giving
voice samples to any third country, he said: "I suggested one
time that don't give it to us. Give it to a third country so
that it is subjected to forensic analysis in a third country.
Significantly, chiefs of intelligence agencies of
India and Pakistan are going to meet here before Chidambaram
and the delegation leaves for home tomorrow. PTI