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New Delhi, Jun 18 (PTI) Ahead of the meeting of the foreign secretaries next week, India today handed over the eleventh dossier to Pakistan containing response to points raised by Islamabad over the Mumbai terror strikes and providing "additional information" on those involved in the attacks, including JuD chief Hafiz Saeed. The proceedings of the special Mumbai court, which heard the 26/11 case, including that of lone captured terrorist Ajmal Kasab, his confessional statement and the judgement of the court sentencing him to death, were part of the dossier handed over by Y K Sinha, Joint Secretary in- charge of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, to Pakistan''s Deputy High Commissioner Riffat Masood, sources said. "The Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan was called in the afternoon and handed over a set of responses to the six dossiers received from Pakistan on April 25, 2010 on the Mumbai terror attacks," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash said. Besides containing response to all the queries raised by Pakistan in their six dossiers given on April 25, India has also provided "additional information" on those involved in the Mumbai attacks and were operating from Pakistani soil, the sources told PTI. The Indian "set of responses" also conveys India''s "mounting unhappiness" with Pakistan''s lack of "concrete action" against Saeed, Lashkar-e-Toiba founder and a mastermind behind the Mumbai attacks. In its six dossiers given on April 25 to Indian Deputy High Commissioner Rahul Kulshreshth, Pakistan had asked for three Indian officials, including two magistrates and an investigator, to be allowed to travel to that country to testify that they had recorded statement of Kasab. Pakistan had also asked New Delhi to hand over Kasab to facilitate the trial of LeT''s operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others charged with involvement in the strikes in a Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court. The Indian response comes few days ahead of the talks between Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on June 24 during which both sides will attempt to bridge "trust deficit".
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