India to share Mumbai probe with UN chief today

New Delhi is expected to intensify international pressure on Islamabad to bring perpetrators of Mumbai terror attacks to justice and crack down the terrorist camps there involved in terrorist acts during the day-long visit of UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon here on Thursday.

Ban Ki moon, who was in Pakistan on Wednesday, comes here today to attend the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) on global climate change.

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The three-day annual event from Feb 5-7 assumes greater significance as it explores climate change issues and will come up with a roadmap leading to a suitable agreement in Copenhagen.

During UN chief meeting with the External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the latter is expected to share the details of the investigations into the Mumbai carnage that how terrorists came to India from Pakistan through sea route and unleashed terror for three days, and how Pakistani nationals were linked with the terror attacks.

Pranab, who has been vocal since the Mumbai mayhem accusing Pakistan for not cooperating, is likely to urge Ban to press Pakistan to cooperate and bring perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice.

Ban will also meet UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, but it is not sure whether he will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is recuperating after bypass surgery.

Apart from India-Pakistan relations which have been strained since Nov 26 Mumbai strikes, Mukherjee will discuss with Ban a host of regional issues, including the resurgence of violence in Afghanistan and the situation in Myanmar. During his visit here last year, Ban had urged India to play a more proactive role in promoting democratic reconciliation in Myanmar.

In the backdrop of Pakistan preparing to come with preliminary report, based on the probe into the dossier containing information provided by India, that conspiracy of Mumbai attacks was not hatched on the Pakistani soil, India is reportedly evaluating the option of approaching UN Security Council to press it to include entities based in Pakistan responsible for different terrorist attacks in India since the 2006 bomb blasts on commuter trains in Mumbai in the UN terror list.

On Wednesday, Ban, who was in Pakistan after a stop in Afghanistan, asked Pakistan to cooperate “sincerely and urgently” with India and fully investigate the November’s militant attacks in Mumbai.

“Pakistan must have a full investigation into this issue and fully cooperate with the Indian government,” Ban told a news conference with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.

India has blamed the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group for the attacks and said there must have been support from Pakistani security agencies, which Pakistan has entirely denied.