India has asked Pakistan to either let the FBI interrogate the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba founder Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and probe the 26/11 leads in Pakistan or help New Delhi execute the non-bailable warrant against Saeed in case Islamabad is “unwilling or unable” to investigate the Mumbai attack.

Listing evidence against Saeed, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief, in the sixth dossier which was handed over by Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao to Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik on August 21, New Delhi has asked Islamabad to help arrest him and “produce before the trial court” in Mumbai. The dossier says it was Saeed who named Ajmal Amir Kasab, the gunman captured in Mumbai later, as Abu Mujahid.

The dossier takes note of the interrogation of Kasab and Sabahuddin and Fahim Ansari who are also accused in the Rampur CRPF camp attack case. Copies of statements made by Sabahuddin and Ansari were given to Pakistan as Dossier No. 5 on August 1.

New Delhi has told Islamabad that there is “cogent and credible” evidence pointing to the involvement of Saeed in the planning and execution of the Mumbai attacks and has called for the following:

* Investigations in Pakistan, especially at places mentioned by Kasab, Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin.

* Interrogation of Saeed.

* Interrogation of others mentioned in the statements of Kasab, Ansari, Sabahuddin.

* Interrogation of Pakistani nationals (Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Zarar Shah and Abu al-Qama) arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency.

* Analysis of mobile phone call data of Pakistani nationals arrested by the FIA.

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