India on Sunday reiterated that it will share information with Pakistan on the investigation into the Samjhauta train blast once the probe is completed. Union Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai told reporters here that while India understands the concerns of Islamabad as several Pakistani citizens were killed in the blast,investigation has not been completed yet. Now the investigation is on. .Investigation is not complete. As and when the investigation is completed and chargesheet is filed,we will definitely share the information with Pakistan, he said. The blast in Samjhauta Express,which runs between India and Pakistan,took place on the intervening night of February 17 and 18,2007 near Panipat in Haryana and last week,Swami Aseemanand has given a confessional statement to the National Investigation Agency (NIA),admitting his and his colleagues involvement in the blast that left 68 dead,mostly Pakistanis. Pillai said the government was committed to bring to justice anyone who commits terror irrespective of his religion or anything else as it considers such person as nothing but a criminal. I think in one sense,it (the probe) shows that we are willing to be fair as far as possible. If somebody has done a crime,irrespective of who is he,what is his religion,we will go after him and make sure that he is punished, he said. Pillai also said attempts to bring the guilty in Mumbai attacks to justice has not moved an inch in Pakistan. He said he hoped Pakistan would learn from Indias fair handling of the Samjhauta blast case and punish the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai carnage. He also said Indias request for providing voice samples of the handlers of the attackers had fallen on deaf ears in the Pakistan establishment. During his Islamabad visit last year,when Home Minister P Chidambaram sought action against the 26/11 perpetrators and voice samples of handlers of the attackers,his Pakistani counterpart,Rehman Malik,assured him that you would not be disappointed by our response. Pillai said,However,seven months down the line,there is no Pakistani response. We are disappointed. He said that no key person,who was actually involved in the Mumbai terror strikes or giving directions to the attackers,had been arrested. That is not a real investigation. From the steps so far taken by Pakistan,we would say we are quite pessimistic because when the Home Minister was in Islamabad,the Interior Minister actually told him that he would respond, he said.
