NEW DELHI, Jan 30: Pakistan’s High Commissioner in Britain Wajid Shamsul Hassan has said that the November terror attack on Mumbai was not planned in Pakistan or Britain, but somewhere else, comments that appeared to anger New Delhi.

In comments reported on Friday, Mr Hassan told India’s NDTV news channel in London that Pakistan’s findings were based on the dossier on the attack given by India.

“Pakistani territory was not used so far as the investigators have made their conclusions,” Mr Hassan was quoted as saying.

“Pakistan territory (was) not used. It could have been some other place. Not the UK as well. Because these were the two places I was concerned about. They categorically informed me that UK was not involved. (Pakistan) was not involved. Its territories were not used for planning this operation.”

NDTV said the official report by Islamabad was likely to absolve Pakistan of involvement in the terrorist strike on Mumbai.

When NDTV said India might not believe Pakistan’s findings, Mr Hassan asked: “Why will they not believe if we say so and we are giving facts to show that, may be some other place was used.”

The dossier had transcripts to support India’s case, the diplomat was reminded. He said: “Well it could be fabricated, it could be made out you know, you took 45 days to give that sort of evidence although you started blaming Pakistan from day one itself”.

Stressing that Pakistan’s findings were objective, Mr Hassan added: “We are not going to do any whitewashing business. We believe in going after facts. Our findings will be acceptable to the world. We will try to satisfy India with our findings. We are addressing the concerns of the world not just India.”

India’s Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee responded to reports that Pakistan was planning to deny its territory was used to stage the attacks.

He said: “We have not received any information from Pakistani authorities through the proper channels. Whatever we are hearing like you is through the media. This is not the way a government can respond.”

Pakistan’s response so far was “totally unacceptable”, PTI quoted official sources as saying. Islamabad will lose even the “shred of credibility” it has, the agency said, quoting the sources.

“Making it clear that New Delhi cannot let perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage go scot-free, the sources said India is keeping its options on dealing with Pakistan open, but refused to spell them out,” PTI said.