New Delhi: India on Thursday said it would have to
conclude that Pakistan is dragging its feet on bringing terror
accused in Mumbai attacks to justice if it does not put on
trial people including Hafiz Saeed, founder of terror group
Lashker-e-Toiba.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, while reacting to
Pakistan's claim that India had not provided any evidence
against Saeed, said "Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi is one of the
masterminds. There are others. We know their names and
Pakistan also knows their names."
"If they do not bring the others to trial, then I would
have to conclude, reluctantly and regretfully that they are
dragging their feet," Chidambaram told reporters here.
He was responding to questions that Pakistan had spared
Saeed in its chargesheet filed in an anti-terrorist court
accusing seven other Lashker terrorists including Lakhvi.
India has been demanding trial of Saeed, against whom
Interpol also issued Red Corner Notice for his alleged role in
the 26/11 Mumbai attack. Islamabad, however, claims that India
had only shared information about Saeed and no evidence.
Pakistan Federal Investigating Agency, in its report to
the court conducting the trial of seven accused, including
Lakhvi, states that there is "sufficient incriminating
evidence on record against those arrested for orchestrating
the Mumbai attacks."
PTI
First Published: Thursday, January 28, 2010, 18:15