ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: Pakistan has described the information provided by India on the Mumbai attacks as ‘insufficient’ to reach a logical conclusion and bring the alleged perpetrators to justice.
Reviewing a report prepared by the Federal Investigation Agency, the defence committee of the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani decided on Monday that Pakistan would also send a dossier to India with several questions required for investigation into the case.
Official sources told Dawn that the dossier had been drafted and would be sent to New Delhi in a couple of days.
India, it may be mentioned, has categorically rejected Pakistan’s claim that the information contained in its dossier was ‘insufficient’ and announced that it would not provide any further information to Pakistan.
In its dossier Pakistan seeks reports of DNA tests of Ajmal Kasab — the lone surviving perpetrator of the Mumbai attacks and nine others reportedly killed by Indian security personnel so that they could be matched with their family members, if any, in Pakistan.
Pakistan, according to the sources, also seeks information about weapons used by terrorists and details of mobile phone calls made by them and reportedly taped by Indian security forces.
Pakistan also demands information regarding I P addresses from which emails were sent to attackers by alleged perpetrators.
In the dossier, Pakistan also seeks access of Pakistani investigators to the Indians who also were believed to be involved in the attacks in order to interrogate them. There is a strong realisation in Pakistani security agencies that without the help of elements in India, the Mumbai crime could have not been committed.
Pakistan also urges India to provide details about Indian Navy officials who were reportedly killed by terrorists when they violated Indian territorial waters.
Pakistan has also decided to register a case against perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to bring them to justice in accordance with the law of the land.
An FIR on the basis of the investigation report would be registered in a couple of days which would also make its contents public, the sources said.
The cabinet committee was satisfied that the inquiry had been conducted professionally and endorsed interior ministry’s recommendation to proceed with registration of the FIR.
According to an official handout, the committee was briefed on the inquiry carried out on the basis of information provided by Indian authorities.
The meeting decided that “the case should be registered and further investigation be carried out so that the perpetrators, wherever they may be, of the heinous crime are brought to justice in accordance with the law of the land”.
It said: “In order to complete the investigation the questions which are arising from the inquiry carried out by the FIA need to be answered by the Indian authorities.
“The meeting discussed and deliberated on the security situation in the country, particularly in Swat and the tribal areas. The security agencies were directed to clear the area of militants while ensuring safety of the locals”.
Minister for Defence Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar, Minister for Defence Production Abdul Qayyum Khan Jatoi, Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Minister for Information & Broadcasting Sherry Rehman, Minister for Law Farooq H. Naek, Adviser to the PM on Finance Shaukat Tarin, Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Tariq Majid, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Noman Bashir, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mehmood Ahmad, director general of Inter-Services Intelligence, cabinet secretary, foreign secretary, defence secretary, interior secretary and the director general of Intelligence Bureau attended the meeting.
