11-02-09 Home Affairs Minister P Chidambaram said that he was very disappointed in what he had heard so far from the Pakistani authorities. India is convinced the attacks were organized and financed in Pakistan. Mr. Chidambaram was speaking a day after Pakistan said it needed more evidence from India to prosecute suspects. Mr. Chidambaram said his government had still had no official response from Pakistan to a dossier of evidence which India says proves last November's Mumbai (Bombay) attacks were coordinated in Pakistan by Pakistanis. Mr. Chidambaram told the BBC that it was hard to believe that the Pakistani government is taking the issue seriously. "If the government of Pakistan was serious it should have pursued the lines of investigation that are self indicated in the dossier and apprehended the perpetrators by now.”We are disappointed but we hope that when the official response comes it will not be a cover-up or a whitewash." Mr Chidambaram also cast doubt on statements from the government in Islamabad that there was no official Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai attacks. We have not only suspicions, he said, but we have very strong grounds to believe that elements within the state were involved.

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