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India Gives Pakistan Evidence Over Mumbai Attacks

India hands Pakistan detailed evidence it says links Mumbai attacks to Pakistani 'elements'

Menon dismissed those moves as insufficient and said the charity was still operating and Pakistan authorities have not informed India about the status of the two men they said they arrested.

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Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee and the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai. India gave Pakistan the most detailed evidence yet that it said tied the militants who attacked Mumbai to "elements" in Pakistan.
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"What we have seen so far does not impress us," he said.

In Islamabad on Monday, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher met with Pakistani leaders and called for India and Pakistan to work together in the investigation.

"It's clear...that the attackers had links that lead to Pakistani soil," he said.

Menon declined to say whether the evidence showed links to Pakistan's powerful spy agency, which has allegedly been tied to attacks against India in the past.

Indian leaders have stepped up the rhetoric about the possible involvement of Pakistani officials in recent days.

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The top security official, Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram, said Sunday in an interview with the news channel NDTV that "no non-state actor can mount this attack without any kind of state help."

Tensions have been high between the nuclear-armed rivals ever since the attacks. Pakistan has redeployed troops toward India and away from the Afghan border, where authorities are battling militants.

India and Pakistan have fought three wars against each other since they gained independence in 1947 — two over Kashmir, a majority Muslim region in the Himalayas claimed by both countries. Despite increased tensions, Indian leaders have made clear they do not want to fight a fourth.

Pakistan's leaders have veered back and forth from confrontational statements to conciliatory ones and on Sunday Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the country wanted "good relations with its neighbors."

Much of India's evidence against the militants comes from interrogations of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only gunman to survive the attacks. He has reportedly told authorities that he and his nine other attackers were Pakistani, he was trained in Pakistan, and his handlers are still there.

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