NEW DELHI, March 17: India reaffirmed on Tuesday that it had replied to 30 questions posed by Pakistan pertaining to the dossier on the Mumbai terror attacks and said it expected Islamabad to bring the culprits to book sooner rather than later.

“Certainly, we would hope that those things (bringing perpetrators to justice and dismantling terror infrastructure) would happen and happen as soon as possible and we will do everything we can to encourage that process,” Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters .

He was quoted by Press Trust of India as saying New Delhi had replied to the 30 questions as part of the process to help Pakistan take action against those behind the attacks.

He said that Pakistan understood what India expected it to do. The responses New Delhi has received from authorities in Islamabad “represent the first step in the direction for meeting those goals...We will do what we can to encourage them to do the right thing. But I cannot say that everything has happened yet and perpetrators have either been brought to justice or there has been credible action against the infrastructure of terror in Pakistan,” he added.

On the recent political crisis in Pakistan, he said the country had shown ability to address the situation. “We would wish them well and we hope, as we have often enough, for a stable democratic Pakistan, which is at peace with itself,” Mr Menon said.
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