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India demands Pakistan sign of faith
Matthias Williams
Reuters
Tuesday, Dec 02, 2008
India demanded Pakistan hand over 20 of its most
wanted men in a sign of good faith on Tuesday as diplomatic efforts
to head off a confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals over
the Mumbai attacks intensified.
The demand was contained in a protest note handed
to Pakistan's High Commissioner Shahid Malik in New Delhi on Monday,
Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters.
"We have in our demarche (diplomatic steps) asked for the
arrest and hand-over of those persons who are settled in Pakistan
and who are fugitive of Indian law," he said, adding about
20 people were on the list.
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The Times of India and television channels reported the men included
Dawood Ibrahim, a Mumbai underworld leader, and Maulana Masood
Azhar, a Pakistani Muslim cleric freed from jail in India in exchange
for passengers on a hijacked plane.
The foreign ministry said on Monday that Malik had been told
that "Pakistan's actions needed to match the sentiments expressed
by its leadership that it wishes to have a qualitatively new relationship
with India."
Pakistan said it would respond to the demand soon.
"We have to look at it formally once we get it (the note)
and we will frame a response," Information Minister Sherry
Rehman told reporters in Islamabad.
Mukherjee later said India was not considering military action
in response to last week's Mumbai attacks.
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa was in New Delhi on
a scheduled visit on Tuesday while U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice was due to arrive on Wednesday.
India has blamed Islamist militants based in Pakistan for the
attacks in India's financial capital that killed 183 people.
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