26/11: India gives detailed dossier to Pak

India on Saturday handed over a detailed dossier of evidence on the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai to Pakistan,almost 20 days after Islamabad sought...

India on Saturday handed over a detailed dossier of evidence on the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai to Pakistan,almost 20 days after Islamabad sought additional information. Sources said the seven-page dossier,with 60 annexures,was handed over to Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner Riffat Masood by Ministry of External Affairs joint secretary T C A Raghavan,who heads the Pakistan desk. No CDs have been handed over,they said.

Home Minister P Chidambaram said Pakistan had asked routine,fill-in-the blanks kind of questions,the answers to which can be found by reading the Criminal Procedure Code. He added that the dossier had enough evidence to continue investigations against Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Sayeed for his alleged role in the Mumbai terror strikes.

The evidence provided in the dossiers to Pakistan is sufficient to investigate the role of Hafiz Sayeed. There is enough evidence to continue investigations against Sayeed, Chidambaram said. Yesterday,the Home Ministry finalised the response to the latest set of questions sent by Pakistan in connection with the Mumbai attacks.

It is learnt that the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi was making efforts to send the dossier as early as Saturday night through a special messenger on a flight to Amritsar and take it by road to Lahore,where the Pakistan Foreign office has a full-fledged branch office. The Lahore office will then transmit the dossier to Islamabad.

Mumbai cops turn down request for pink foam

MUMBAI: The Mumbai Police have turned down Pakistan’s request for samples of pink foam found in the bombs planted by the 26/11 attackers. In a request made in the dossier handed over to India on July 11,Pakistan said it wanted a sample of the foam for “chemical comparison” with some material seized there. The Mumbai Police Crime Branch has suggested that Pakistani investigators invoke a letter rogatory,a formal request from a court to a foreign court for judicial assistance,from the court in their country and seek the evidence directly from the Mumbai court hearing the 26/11 case. The foam was used to pack the three bombs the Lashkar men planted in the city but which failed to explode. It was also found on M V Kuber. ENS