Islamabad (PTI): India on Monday handed over a dossier on its probe into the Mumbai terror attacks to Pakistan, which sought cooperation between the two countries in the investigations to gather "legally scrutable" evidence.

High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal called on Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir in the Foreign Office here and handed over "an information dossier on the status of investigations thus far by India into the Mumbai terrorist attacks", said a statement issued by the Foreign Office.

Bashir told Pal that Pakistan was "carrying out its own investigations and was determined to uncover the full facts pertaining to the Mumbai terrorist attacks".

He "underscored that Pakistan and India must cooperate in the investigations with a view to gathering evidence that was legally scrutable".

The same information was shared by Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon with Pakistan's High Commissioner Shahid Malik in New Delhi earlier in the day. Bashir said the Pakistan government will "evaluate the information provided by India so far".

The Foreign Office statement said the Indian government had "expressed the hope that it will receive cooperation of the government of Pakistan in carrying out further investigations".

Bashir also said it was Pakistan's desire to deal effectively with terrorism, which was a "regional phenomenon and required close cooperation".

Bashir reiterated Pakistan's proposals for a joint investigation into the Mumbai attacks and for sending a high-level delegation to India to discuss the sharing of information.

Pakistan also wanted to constitute a joint commission headed by the National Security Advisers of the two countries, he said.

Earlier, Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq had said Pakistan is examining "information" on the Mumbai attacks handed over by India.

Pakistan's top leadership also told visiting US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher that the government is examining the evidence and a formal response would be framed shortly.

Boucher's arrival in Islamabad this morning coincided with the handing over of evidence by India on the terrorist incident in its financial hub that killed over 180 people.

Though there was no official word on Boucher's meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, official sources were quoted by TV channels as saying that the Pakistani leaders had informed the US diplomat that Islamabad's formal response to the information provided by New Delhi would be framed shortly.

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