India and Pakistan demands extradition proposed a joint investigation

New Delhi, December 2, 2008. - After ruling that you are considering the military option, India demanded Pakistan today the delivery of a dozen suspected terrorists and this country has proposed a joint investigation into the Mumbai attacks.
The two countries continued today by measuring their disagreements, in an escalation of tension in which intervene morning Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who moves to New Delhi and, according to unconfirmed reports, also in Islamabad.
"The international community supports us, including the new President-elect Barack Obama," proclaimed the Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, noting that his country is awaiting Pakistan's response to their demands.
"Nobody is talking of military action," reassured the minister, told reporters during the inauguration of the India-Arab Forum, according to the Indian agencies.
His Government was last night summoned the Pakistani ambassador in India, Shahid Malik, to deliver a formal protest by the involvement of "elements from Pakistan" in the Mumbai attacks.
Through Malik, Indian authorities demanded that Pakistan "strong action" against those elements and called for the delivery of a score of "fugitives under the laws of India who have settled in Pakistan," Mukherjee said today.
Among the "fugitives" demanded by India is the gangster allegedly responsible for the attacks in Bombay in 1993, Dawood Ibrahim, and the leaders of the Kashmiri groups Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Mohamed Said, and Jaish-e- Mohammad (JeM), Masood Azhar.
"We made ​​the request on Monday. We are awaiting a response from Pakistan, "Mukherjee said, adding:" what is going to do, time will tell. "
It still react to that specific request, his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi, today offered India the creation of a joint commission to investigate the Mumbai attacks, but insisted that his neighbor did not return to Pakistan without foundation.
The Pakistani national and alleged terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba (a group that fights for the annexation of Kashmir to Pakistan and is based in this country) have led to the Indian media to point to the Administration responsible Pakistani what this country "strongly refutes" according to Qureshi.
According to research, a terrorist sailed from the Pakistani port city of Karachi and from there sailed off to reach the Indian city of Bombay and its tremendous launch attacks that left 188 dead last week.
In a statement, Qureshi said he had transferred his joint research proposal to a group of diplomats in Islamabad, to whom he reiterated his Government's intention to cooperate to "bring to justice the perpetrators of this heinous terrorist act."
The joint commission proposed by Pakistan, according to Qureshi, would be chaired by national security advisers of both countries and would meet "as soon as possible to exchange information" over the attack.
For such cooperation, Qureshi said the need for both countries to avoid falling into the "blame game and hostile propaganda", which will benefit the terrorists.
What to do India and Pakistan, the minister said Pakistan is to continue the dialogue process initiated in 2004, which in his opinion is helping to make "significant progress" in strengthening mutual trust.
In fact, Qureshi had met Mukherjee in India shortly before the start of the Mumbai attacks, which forced him to cut short his official visit.
And while Mukherjee ruled out the use of military action, Qureshi assured about the same time in a televised address to the nation that the Pakistani army is "fully capable" of defending its borders.

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