Home Minister P Chidambaram said that India wants more action from Pakistan against those involved in the Mumbai terror attacks and expressed confidence of a "positive outcome" in the matter after his meeting with his counterpart Rehman Malik.
Briefing media-persons about his meetings with Malik, Chidambaram said India believes that more people were behind the attacks and more people should be prosecuted. "We know that seven people (are being) prosecuted in the case. How far the prosecution has proceeded, it is for the Pakistani government to tell," he said, when asked about the status of Pakistan's trial of the 26/11 attacks case. He also noted that the trial of seven people, including Lashkar -e-Tayiba operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, was adjourned for a week on Saturday.
"We think that more people were behind the attacks and more people should be prosecuted. That point has been made to the Pakistani government and as I said, I wish to remain positive on the outcome of the meeting with Rehman Malik," the Home Minister said. Terming his over 2-hour-long meeting with Malik on Friday as good, he said they both identified what needs to be done other than what has already been done.
"I think the meeting that I had with Rehman Malik was a good meeting. We spoke with each other. We spoke directly to each other and I am confident that something good will emerge out of that meeting. So, let's try to remain positive," he said. Chidambaram, the first Indian home minister to visit Pakistan in three decades, met Malik at the Interior Ministry in Islamabad, and sought action against Jamaat-ud-Dawaa chief Hafiz Saeed, mastermind of the Mumbai attacks.
