New Delhi: With Pakistan saying that there
was no delay on its part in prosecuting people behind the
26/11 Mumbai attacks, India on Wednesday said Islamabad should not
try to score "petty points" on the issue and help in bringing
the perpetrators to book.
"Let us not score petty points over whether the fault
lies with them or us. The fact is that the crime has been done
and it is important that the perpetrators are brought to
book," Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju told
reporters here.
He was asked to react on Pakistan`s Interior Minister
Rehman Malik`s statement that "there are no delays on our
(Pakistan`s) part (in 26/11 probe). There are certain
complications".
"You know that the judicial commission was to be
constituted. That has now been constituted, and the concerned
Pakistani court has already asked us to find out from India as
to which judicial focal point will be there in India," Malik
had said.
Raju said both India and Pakistan have been "badly"
affected by terrorism and if a message has to be sent to
global community that the countries are working in a
neighbourly manner, the perpetrators of the attacks have to
brought to book.
"I hope Pakistan Government will cooperate in this," he
added.
India has been demanding that Islamabad take strong
action against the allged perpetrators of the attacks
including Lashkar chief Hafiz Saeed and another operative
Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, who are in Pakistan.
PTI
