India to Pakistan: Hand over suspects
In wake of deadly Mumbai attacks, New Delhi demand Islamabad hand over about 20 suspected terrorists. Pakistan says will 'frame a response' to demand, offers joint probe
Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee says the names were given to Pakistan's high commissioner to New Delhi in a protest note during a meeting Monday night.
The list includes Dawood Ibrahim, the alleged mastermind of 1993 Mumbai bombings and India's most-wanted man. He is thought to be living in Pakistan, though Islamabad denies that.
The demand comes in the wake of the deadly Mumbai attacks.
A Pakistani government minister said his country would "frame a response" to the Indian demand.
"We have to look at it formally once we get it and we will frame a response," Information Minister Sherry Rehman told reporters in Islamabad.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Tuesday that Pakistan had offered a "joint investigative mechanism and joint commission" to India to probe the attacks. He didn't say when the offer was made or if India had responded.
The attacks threaten to sour already troubled relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
Qureshi told Pakistani citizens that they had no reason to worry because the government and armed forces were united and "fully capable" of defending the country.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report
