ISLAMABAD, 15 October 2006 — Federal Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said in Mardan yesterday, “India has still not provided to Pakistan any evidence linking Pakistan’s prime intellegence agency ISI in Jully 11’s Bombay train bombings. We are in fact waiting for such evidence to investigate the matter at our end.”
Sherpao added, “Pakistan being a victim of terrorism itself, it is more than keen to get traces of underground terrorists as our government is leaving no stone unturned to track down terrorists no matter to which outlawed terrorist group they belong.”
He said Bombay’s police commissioner had simply named Lashkar-e-Taiba but so far the Indian government had provided no evidence. “We wish to have clues in the case so that while clearing our end, we will be helping India itself,” he added.
Sherpao’s statement came at a time when a section of the press in Pakistan carried stories that the Indian government had submitted evidence against Lashkar-e-Taiba to the US administration.
The interior minister said India will be doing a “favor to Pakistan by supplying to us intelligence gatherings in the July 11 Bombay train bombings.”
