New Delhi: Pakistan's intelligence agency Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence’s (ISI) chief Lieutenant General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha says India had not yet given any evidence of the involvement of Pakistani groups.
In an interview to a German magazine Der Spiegel, Lt Gen Pasha said he was willing to come to India to aid the investigations into the Mumbai terror attacks.
"So far the Indians have failed to provide evidence to support their claims that Pakistani groups sponsored by the ISI were behind the Mumbai attacks. They have given us nothing, no numbers, no connections, no names. This is regrettable," Lt Gen Pasha, ISI’s Director General, claimed.
"We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds. We know full well that terror is our enemy, not India. It is clear to the army chief and I that this government must succeed. Otherwise we will have a lot of problems in this country. I report regularly to the President and take orders from him," he said.
Pakistan has been denying that India has given any concrete evidence of involvement of Pakistani elements in planning and executing the terror strikes in Mumbai.
India's Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon had given a dossier to Pakistan's High Commissioner in India Shahid Malik on Monday with details of Pakistani links to the attack.
But Pakistan has maintained that the terrorists who attacked Mumbai were not its citizens.
Reacting to the dossier, Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said that India has given them very little information and that too is not credible.
"The details provided by India are mere information and cannot be treated as evidence or help in the investigations," Bashir told the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Accusing India of being belligerent, Bashir accused India of pushing the entire region towards war.
He said that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement, in which he accused Pakistani elements of being behind the Mumbai terror attacks, has made the situation worse in the sub-continent and added that India wanted to isolate Pakistan internationally.
Pakistan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Malik Ahmad Khan, too, blamed India for not giving any evidence to Pakistan related to Mumbai terror attacks.
"India has not even begun its official investigation. We will give befitting response to Indian military’s adventurism. India has not pushed back its forces from forward position on Pakistan’s eastern borders," said Malik Ahmad Khan.
It has also raised questions about the authenticity of lone terrorist captured alive during the attacks Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab's confessional letter written to the Pakistani High Commissioner in India asking for legal aid.
"I believe what I have heard that the confession statement has been given in Hindi by that so called Pakistani. Pakistanis don't speak Hindi and the stated confession is clearly in Hindi," Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Wajid Shamsul Hasan said.
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