India expects
Pak to act fast against 26/11 perpetrators
March 17, 2009
India on Tuesday said it expected Pakistan to act fast in bringing
the perpetrators of Mumbai attacks to justice and promised cooperation
in this regard.
"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 in New Delhi.
He said India had replied to the 30 questions as part of the
process to help Pakistan take action against those behind the
Mumbai attacks.
"We will continue down that road with whoever is willing
to help us to achieve our goal," Menon said.
He said that Pakistan understands what India expects it to do
and 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,"
Menon said.
On the situation in the neighbouring country, he said Pakistan
has 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,"
Menon said.
