India Accuses Pakistan On Mumbai, Bbc

India has accused Pakistan of not doing enough to track down those responsible for armed attacks on Mumbai in which more than 170 people were killed.

India is convinced the attacks were organised and financed in Pakistan.

Mr Chidambaram was speaking a day after Pakistan said it needed more evidence from India to prosecute suspects.

'State elements'

Mr Chidambaram said his government had still had no official response from Pakistan to a dossier of evidence which India says proves last November's Mumbai (Bombay) attacks were co-ordinated in Pakistan by Pakistanis.

All we hear, he said, is through the media.

But if it is true that Pakistan is demanding more evidence, that is very unfortunate, he said.

Mr Chidambaram told the BBC that it was hard to believe that the Pakistani government is taking the issue seriously.

"If the government of Pakistan was serious it should have pursued the lines of investigation that are self indicated in the dossier and apprehended the perpetrators by now.

"We are disappointed but we hope that when the official response comes it will not be a cover-up or a whitewash."

Mr Chidambaram also cast doubt on statements from the government in Islamabad that there was no official Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai attacks.

We have not only suspicions, he said, but we have very strong grounds to believe that elements within the state were involved.

It is nearly three months since the 10 gunmen who carried out the attacks arrived on the Mumbai shoreline.

The BBC's Chris Morris in Delhi says they triggered a crisis in relations between two old rivals which has yet to be resolved.

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