'India hands Pakistan more info on Mumbai attacks'India has handed Pakistan more information about the deadly Mumbai attacks ahead of the first anniversary of the carnage that killed 166 people, Islamabad said Wednesday. "The dossier was handed over to our high commission in New Delhi New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. by the Indian ministry of external affairs," Pakistan's foreign ministry said. India and Washington blamed the November 26-29 siege on Pakistan's banned militant group
The Militant Group was an early British Trotskyist group, formed in 1935 by Denzil Dean Harber, former leader of the Marxist Group, as an entrist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the attacks stalled a fragile four-year peace process between the two nuclear-armed south Asian rivals. New Delhi has blamed Pakistani "official agencies" for abetting the 60-hour assault by 10 militant gunmen -- charges that Islamabad flatly denies. "Arrangements have been made for the receipt of the dossier in Islamabad," Pakistan's foreign ministry said. The ministry gave no details on the contents of the file, which it said would be forwarded to the interior ministry "for examination". New Delhi has put pressure on Islamabad to speed up its investigations into those who carried out the attacks. Pakistan has put on trial seven suspects accused by India of involvement in last year's attacks, but Interior Minister Rehman Malik Noun 1. malik - the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent; "maliks rule the hinterland of Afghanistan under the protection of warlords" has repeatedly asked India to provide more information to bring the perpetrators to justice. India had previously provided four dossiers to Islamabad with information relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc suspects and the logistics of how 10 heavily armed gunmen targeted luxury hotels, Mumbai's main train station, a restaurant and a Jewish centre. Those in custody in Pakistan include alleged mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and alleged key LeT operative Zarar Shah. India has put on trial Pakistan's Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving gunman of the attacks, who made a dramatic confession. The two countries, which gained independence from British rule and split in the 1947 partition, have fought three bitter wars.
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