Pak will get more proof on 26/11: Krishna

New Delhi, August 22
Despite Islamabad’s defiant attitude, India is no mood to relent the pressure on Pakistan to bring to book the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks.
A day after India presented a fresh dossier to Islamabad on the Mumbai mayhem, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said more evidence would be given to Pakistan to carry out its own investigations into the 26/11 incidents.
“We are in continuous touch with the government of Pakistan. It is an ongoing exercise between Pakistan and India,” Krishna told reporters here.
“So as and when we collect more evidence, we will keep sending it across to Pakistan and that’s what the foreign secretary did yesterday.”
Yesterday, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao had handed over to Pakistani High Commissioner Shahid Malik the latest dossier on the November 2008 terror attacks, which specifically includes “additional information” on Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed.
However, Pakistan has said that the latest Indian dossier pointing to the involvement of Hafiz Saeed in the Mumbai attacks did not contain anything substantial. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was quoted as saying that if India has explicit evidence regarding Saeed’s involvement in the Mumbai attacks, this should be handed over to Pakistan.
In a separate statement related to elections in Afghanistan, Krishna said: “It is gratifying to see the democratic process taking strong root in Afghanistan.”
“Despite the complex security environment and threats from terrorist groups, candidates have campaigned fearlessly and new voters registered themselves in large numbers. As a fellow developing country and a democracy, we remain strongly supportive of the election process and democratic institutions of Afghanistan,” he said.