NEW DELHI, Feb 1: Pakistan is probing the Mumbai terror attacks in a manner an investigating agency should proceed and has sent two sets of questions to India’s dossier handed over to it, one of which has already been replied to, India’s National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan said on Sunday.

“What I am aware of is that after the receipt of the dossier by Pakistan, the Pakistan government has reverted to us and asked a number of questions to which answers have been provided,” Mr Narayanan told CNN-IBN channel.

He was responding to a query on a recent statement by Pakistan High Commissioner in Britain that Pakistani soil was not used for planning the Mumbai terror strikes.

“I assume that they are yet to receive reply to the second set of queries they have made. So, I don’t know what the Pakistan High Commissioner in London is talking about. I can only say that it is part of the dysfunctional manner in which several things are taking place in that country,” he said.

Asked if he was satisfied with the Pakistani response to the Indian dossier, he said: “I don’t know what the word satisfied (means) but certainly they appear to be taking things seriously and at least they are proceeding in a manner that one would expect an investigating agency to proceed, asking queries and not taking everything that is given at the face value that has been given.

“So it is good news from our point of view. (But) whether after all this they would still accept the truth that will kind of hit them in the face, that I don’t know.”

Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s separate comments seemed to be at variance. “Pakistan has not given India any information as a reply to the dossier through diplomatic channels. All we have heard so far on the dossier is from the media,” he said in Murshidabad in West Bengal on Sunday.

“The least Pakistan could have done is to inform the Indian government about the probe through the Indian high commission in Islamabad.”

According to Mr Mukherjee, India was ready to share more information with Pakistan if this was required to further its investigation into the Mumbai attack.

This was the third consecutive day Mr Mukherjee has asked Pakistan to reply to its dossier through diplomatic channels.

“We have provided them with the dossier. They have reverted with certain queries, we have replied to their queries, and I presume that they will have more questions and we will assist them,” Mr Narayanan said.

“So as far as we are concerned, we believe that Pakistan is making an attempt to arrive at the truth,” Mr Narayanan said, adding that India was giving Pakistan every opportunity to “prove its bona fide” in the probe.

At the same time, he wondered why Pakistan was not being more open about the probe, particularly when it maintained that non-state actors were involved in the Mumbai attacks.

Mr Narayanan was unimpressed with the so-called clampdown on militant outfits like Jamaatud Dawa by Pakistan, saying they were being treated as house guests rather than detainees.

“I am not impressed very much with this. I mean training camps can be closed down and reopened at short notice at any time they like. Taking over of the sprawling Muridke campus and a few acres... it’s only a matter of time it will come back or it will come back somewhere else. I mean these are cosmetic exercises,” Mr Narayanan said.

Meanwhile, officials of US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) have made a request to interrogate two militants arrested earlier by the Uttar Pradesh Police and questioned by Mumbai police in connection with the Mumbai attacks.

The FBI made the request through proper channels for questioning Fahim Arshad Ansari and Sabbauddin Ahmed, alleged militants of banned Lashker-e-Taiba, who were brought to Mumbai in December last year as a follow up to the probe into the Mumbai attacks, Press Trust of India said quoting official sources.