Pakistan on Thursday said it has received an official communication from India regarding the visit of a commission there to interview key persons linked to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and is examining its contents.
“We received a communication from India yesterday. It has been forwarded to the Interior Ministry and experts are looking at the contents of the letter,” Foreign Office spokesperson Tehmina Janjua told a weekly news briefing.
Ms. Janjua was responding to a question on Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s remarks that India had agreed in principle to allow a Pakistani commission to visit India in connection with the investigation into the Mumbai attacks.
Mr. Chidambaram also said India was awaiting a reply from Pakistan to its request to allow a team to question some persons in Pakistan suspected of involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
“We have agreed to allow a commission to come to India to record the evidence of the investigating officer, the magistrate who recorded the statements, and the doctors who conducted the post mortems of the terrorists and the victims,” Mr. Chidambaram said on Tuesday.
Ms. Janjua also announced that the Home and Interior Secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in Delhi during March 28-29 as part of the process of resuming dialogue between the two countries.
The officials will discuss counter-terrorism efforts, steps to curb the smuggling of narcotics and humanitarian issues, she said.
India and Pakistan recently agreed to resume the dialogue that was suspended in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, which were carried out by the Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba.
