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Published: Jan. 5, 2009 at 2:03 PM

NEW DELHI, Jan. 5 (UPI) — Officials said India turned over to Pakistan evidence that linked “elements” in Pakistan to the November terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.

The file, circulated by the Indian Foreign Ministry to several countries, included information from the interrogation of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only Mumbai gunman captured alive, whom Indian officials maintain is a Pakistani national trained by terrorists reportedly with links with Pakistan’s spy organization, The Times of London reported Monday.

The documentation also has details of terrorists’ communications with their alleged handlers in Pakistan during the attacks, which began Nov. 26 and lasted for 60 hours, leading to more than 170 deaths in India’s financial and entertainment hub.

“The material is linked to elements in Pakistan. It is our expectation that the government of Pakistan will promptly undertake further investigations,” a spokesman for India’s foreign ministry said.

During the weekend, Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said the dossier was “unanswerable,” the British newspaper reported. “No one in his right mind can give answer to this evidence.”

Chidambaram is expected to brief the White House about the contents of the report in Washington. The Times said the FBI may be asked to act on India’s behalf to investigate matters related to the dossier in Pakistan.

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U.S. officials in Pakistan to talk terror

Published: Jan. 5, 2009 at 11:14 AM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 5 (UPI) — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher was in Pakistan Monday to discuss terrorism issues after the Mumbai, India, attacks, a senior diplomat said.

Boucher plans to meet with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and senior officials as well as opposition leaders to discuss Pakistan’s relationship with India after the Nov. 26 attacks on Mumbai in which more than 170 people died, the Indo-Asian News Service reported.

U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden and a congressional delegation are scheduled to visit the region later this week to help diffuse Pakistani-Indian tensions following the assault on India’s financial and entertainment hub, the news service said.

The United States is pressing Pakistan to act on evidence provided by Indian authorities on the Mumbai attacks and “involvement of Pakistan-based militant groups,” the diplomat said.

Islamabad countered it hasn’t received evidence from India and that a confession from the sole surviving terrorist, Ajmal Kasab, was “not enough” to act against Lashkar-e-Toiba, the Pakistani militant group suspected in the attacks.

India also asked the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi to claim the bodies of nine attackers killed by Indian security forces during the assault, the report said.