ISLAMABAD: Indian High Commissioner S. Sabharwal was called to the Foreign Office on Saturday and handed over a dossier seeking more information about the Mumbai attacks. Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir handed over the dossier.

This document is in response to the dossier handed over to Pakistan by India last month. 

The high commissioner had earlier met Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who is reported to have told him that Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed was being probed for his alleged role in the Mumbai attacks, but information provided by India was ‘sketchy’. 

The prosecution of Hafiz Saeed has been a key Indian demand for the resumption of stalled peace talks between the two countries.

The dossier calls for certified copies of the depositions by FBI officials in the Indian court holding Ajmal Amir Kasab’s trial, details about communication between terrorists and their alleged Pakistan-based handlers and details about Sabahuddin Ahmed and Fahim Ansari, the two other suspects in the case, who had been arrested in the Rampur Camp attack case.

The Indian high commissioner, a source said, was told that more information was needed to make Pakistan’s case ‘solid and tangible’.

The information in the last Indian dossier, the high commissioner was reportedly told, was being used by investigation agencies as leads, but was insufficient to be used in a court of law. 

The Pakistani dossier listed actions Islamabad had taken against the alleged perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks. Foreign Minister Qureshi and his Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna are likely to meet on the sidelines of UN General Assembly session in New York.
 
Their talks would be preceded by the meeting of foreign secretaries. The dossier is meant to reassure India that Islamabad was serious in acting against terrorists who allegedly hit Mumbai last year.

Recently, Hafiz Saeed was booked in two cases under Anti-Terrorism Act in Faisalabad for making provocative speeches, urging people to ‘wage a jihad against infidels’.