Countering Home Minister P Chidambaram’s declaration of India having shared ample evidence with Pakistan to prove Lashkar-e-Toiba founder Hafiz Saeed’s involvement in the 26/11 attack, Mahmud Ali Durrani, the former National Security Advisor of Pakistan, on Saturday said there was “zero proof of involvement of Hafiz Saeed” in the carnage.

In India at the invitation of the Observer Research Foundation, Durrani met former foreign secretary Shivshanker Menon and will be meeting National Security Advisor M K Narayanan on September 8. Meetings with Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, Special Secretary (international political organisations) Vivek Katju and Joint Secretary (Pakistan) T C A Raghavan are also being worked out. He will also meet former NSA Brajesh Mishra.

Delivering the first R K Mishra memorial lecture in New Delhi on Saturday, Durrani said, “Today there is a firm belief amongst the intelligence and security community in Pakistan that India is actively supporting insurgency in Balochistan and some even believe that India has a hand in the turbulence in FATA.” Later, when asked if Pakistan has shared evidence with India, he said, “humney diya hai (we have given it)”.

Durrani was removed as NSA in January this year for being the first in the Pakistan establishment to openly admit in public that Ajmal Amir Kasab was a Pakistani national. The former Pak NSA, who was also known as “General Shanti” (peace) for being involved in Indo-Pak Track-II diplomacy, made a strong pitch for restarting the dialogue process which has been stalled ever since Mumbai terror attacks.

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