Sorry India, US can't force Pak to hand over Dawood

December 08, 2011 18:21

Take this with a large dose of salt.

The US says it does not have the leverage on Pakistan to make it hand over the 1993 Mumbai blast mastermind Dawood Ibrahim and Taliban leader Mullah Omar to India, former U S ambassador to India Robert D Blackwill said today.

"The US probably has less influence on Pakistan today than what it had in many years. Certainly since 9/11, the relationship has been so bad that to think the
US is in a position to influence Islamabad on what India wants, which is to hand terrorists over, is unrealistic," Blackwill told newsmen on the sidelines of an interaction in Kolkata

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