NEW DELHI, Jan 5: India on Monday handed over a dossier to Pakistan, claming it incriminates “elements” from across the border with the Mumbai terror attacks and said Islamabad should extradite those involved to face Indian justice.

“We have today handed over to Pakistan evidence of the links with elements in Pakistan of the terrorists who attacked Mumbai on 26th November,” Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in a statement.

Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon later told a news conference that New Delhi’s goal was to get the involved terrorists extradited.

Mr Mukherjee said the government was briefing friendly countries about the material collected so far from the probe. “I have written to my counterparts around the world giving them details of the events in Mumbai and describing in some detail the progress that we have made in our investigations and the evidence that we have collected.”

“What happened in Mumbai was an unpardonable crime,” Mr Mukherjee said. “As far as the government of Pakistan is concerned, we ask only that it implement the bilateral commitments that it has made at the highest levels to India, and practises her international obligations. These are clear. It is my hope that the world will unite to achieve the goal of eliminating the threat of such terrorism.”

Later in the evening, Mr Menon dilated on the issue with a different emphasis. “Our goals are clear,” he said. “We want the perpetrators to be brought to Indian justice.” He said India wanted action, not words but lamented this had not happened so far.

“We have given them material that has come up during our investigations. We hope Pakistan will investigate this material that leads to Pakistan, share the results with us and extend to us legal assistance so that we can bring the perpetrators to Indian justice,” Mr Menon said. “The assistance fromPakistan extends up to and includes extradition,” he said.

He said that under the Saarc convention, Pakistan was obliged to hand over Mumbai attackers to India. The evidence handed to Pakistan rests largely on the interrogation of the lone surviving gunman, Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman, also known as Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, who is said to hail from the Pakistani Punjab.

He has reportedly told authorities that he and nine other gunmen were Pakistanis, that he was trained in Pakistan and that the people behind the attack were still there. Pakistan has said it has no record of Kasab as a Pakistani citizen.

Other evidence included: conversations between the alleged handlers in

Pakistan and the gunmen during the attack; recovered weapons; and data retrieved from global positioning system and satellite phones. Islamabad says there is no proof the attacks were launched from its soil.

India blamed the three-day November assault on the banned Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which it says trained and equipped the 10 militants. The gunmen chose high-profile targets such as two five-star hotels, the main railway station, restaurants popular with foreign tourists and a Jewish centre.“This material is linked to elements in Pakistan,” a statement from the

Indian foreign ministry said. “It is our expectation that the government of

Pakistan will promptly undertake further investigations in Pakistan and share the results with us so as to bring the perpetrators to justice.”

Meanwhile, US Ambassador to India David Mulford said the United States had consistently supported India over bringing the attackers of Mumbai to justice and underlined that it would pursue to its logical conclusion the investigations into the terror strike, which also killed six Americans.

“The US will pursue the matter to its logical conclusion,” Mr Mulford told journalists here when asked about Washington’s response to the evidence New Delhi has collected that links Pakistan-based elements to the Nov 26 attacks.

“The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) will pursue the evidence. If

Americans are killed, then the US has a duty to investigate the killing,” Mr

Mulford said on the sidelines of a function to commemorate the 50th year of the opening of the American embassy building here.

“The US is supporting India,” Mr Mulford replied when asked whether

Washington would pressure Pakistan to hand over suspects wanted by India in the Mumbai carnage.

About a reported move by the banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to regroup itself under a new banner, Mr Mulford said: “The name may have changed. You don’t change the spots in a leopard.”

The envoy, however, reserved his comments on the evidence India has collected. “It’s not possible to comment on an ongoing evidence,” he said.

Elsewhere, police in the Indian state of Karnataka has been asked to tighten security for major software firms of the state, on the basis of an email threat received on Saturday. The email originated in the United States, according to preliminary investigations.

Indian agencies are not taking the threat lightly, local reports said.

Within hours of the threat, the federal home ministry issued urgent alerts to the Karnataka state police.