India will keep providing evidence to Pakistan on Mumbai attack

Aug 22, 2009, 12:05 GMT

New Delhi - India will keep providing Pakistan evidence as it is collected on the Mumbai terrorist attack of November, Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna said Saturday.

Krishna's statement came a day after India handed over additional information to Pakistan's ambassador in Delhi on the Mumbai attack including inputs on key suspects.

India claims Pakistan-based militant organization Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) planned and executed the three-day attack that was carried out by 10 gunmen on India's financial capital and in which more than 160 people were killed.

The lone surviving gunman Ajmal Kasab is presently under trial in a special court in Mumbai.

The charge-sheet accusing Kasab also names several other suspects based in Pakistan including Hafiz Saeed, founder of LET and now chief of charitable organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which Indian intelligence claims is a front for the LET.

Pakistan has repeatedly said India has not provided enough evidence to implicate Saeed in the Mumbai attacks case.

The latest dossier handed over to Pakistan gives detailed confessional statements of Kasab and Fahim Ansari, an Indian accomplice undergoing trial with Kasab, in which the two name Saeed as a top LET leader and say they met him at terrorist training camps in Pakistan, the Economic Times newspaper reported citing official sources.

India has so far provided Pakistan with four dossiers of information on the attacks including information on suspects and logistics.

'We are in continuous touch with the government of Pakistan,' Krishna told reporters. 'As and when we collect more evidence we will keep sending it across to Pakistan.'

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday that the Indian government had information that terrorist groups in Pakistan were planning fresh attacks on Indian soil.

Pakistan responded with a request that India share any such information.