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‘Sending FIA team to India under study’

Nirupama Subramanian

Gilani says New Delhi has asked for a team’s visit to probe 26/11 attacks

ISLAMABAD: Even as it awaits India’s response to a list of questions on the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan says it is considering a request from New Delhi to send a team of the Federal Investigation Agency in connection with the investigation.

“India has expressed a wish that a team from the FIA should visit India. We are considering this request,” Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told journalists in Lahore on Wednesday.

Mr. Gilani’s remarks seemed to imply a change of mind in India in favour of a joint investigation, but there is no indication from New Delhi that this is so.

He added that his government was still waiting for the Indian response to a list of 30 questions that had arisen during the FIA investigations into Pakistani links to the Mumbai terror attacks.

The questions were part of Pakistan’s response to the material provided by India on the Mumbai attacks. On the basis of the FIA’s investigation into the material, Pakistan admitted last week that part of the planning for the attacks was done in its territory, and registered a case against eight suspects.

A fog of confusion still surrounds the number of arrests, the identity of the arrested and the number of those remanded to FIA custody.

Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said six of the eight suspects had been detained. Contrary to earlier media reports, it now appears that the FIA may have produced only one suspect, Hamad Amin Sadiq, at an anti-terror court on Monday.

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