"The US has an FBI representative in Pakistan at the embassy there. So there is a person there and FBI people will certainly be granted access to Pakistan," he said.

Asked whether Pakistan was doing enough on the issue, he said, "The US will pursue this matter to its conclusion.

"The US will receive from the Indian Government what ever evidence there is. Because we have been involved in helping it gather evidence," he said.

Asked to clarify US position on whether it supports India's demand of handing over terrorists by Pakistan involved in the terror acts, Mulford said Washington has been supporting India on this issue as it is evident from the visits of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and other senior military and intelligence officials.

"They have all made clear the support of the US. There can be no doubt at all on that," he added.

On reports of 'Jamaat-ud-Dawa', the front organization of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, that was banned by UN Security Council in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks resurrecting under a new name, he only said "I cannot comment on that except that when names are changed, you know you don't change the spots on the leopard."

Asked to comment on India's handing over of evidence to Pakistan linking that country to the Mumbai attacks, he said "It's not possible for me to comment on an ongoing investigation."

Mulford said the investigations were taking "a great deal of time."

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