India hands over additional dossier to Pakistan on Mumbai terror attacks

NEW DELHI, Aug. 2(Xinhua)-- India has handed over to Pakistan an additional dossier which contains more evidence and the responses to the seven queries raised by Islamabad on the earlier dossier based on probe into the Mumbai terror attacks last November, said Indian Home Ministry officials Sunday.

Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram had announced the Indian Home Ministry finalized the response to the latest set of questions sent by the government of Pakistan in connection with the investigations in Pakistan on the terror attack. A seven-page response with annexes has been handed over to the Ministry of External Affairs for transmission to the government of Pakistan, said the officials.

The dossier compiled by the Home Ministry provides answers to some "routine questions" raised by Pakistani agencies, besides "filling in the blanks", the officials quoted Chidambaram as saying.

The new dossier has information most of which is already there in the earlier dossiers (submitted so far by India) and contains answers to questions which can already be found in the Criminal Procedure Code.