India must "come clean" about those on its own soil involved in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Pakistan said Friday, a day after it said that the assailants set out from Pakistan.
Pakistan on Thursday filed criminal cases against eight suspects in the November attack and said six of them, including three alleged ringleaders, were already in its custody. It was the first time Pakistan had acknowledged that the Mumbai attacks were planned at least in part on its soil.
The announcement eased fear that the assault, which killed 164 people in India's commercial hub, could push the nuclear-armed neighbours toward war and distract Pakistan from fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
But the two sides plunged back into a war of words on Friday, raising doubts about their ability to revive a painstaking peace process frozen since the Mumbai carnage.
Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee welcomed the progress of Pakistan's investigation.
But he told Parliament that the gains from the peace process between the two countries that began in 2004 remained "at grave risk," and that the "infrastructure of terrorism which exists in Pakistan" must be dismantled to prevent future attacks.
"It is imperative that (Pakistan) act with sincerity and act effectively against the license that terrorist groups enjoy in its territory," he said.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said Mukherjee's remarks were "a rehash of the standard Indian line against Pakistan."
"Pakistan expects India to come clean on the multiple facets of the Mumbai tragedy and expose the names of persons and entities in India who were also responsible for acts of commission and omission," it said.
On Thursday, Pakistani Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said the gunmen had travelled by boat from near the Pakistani city of karachi & that clues supplied by India had helped authorities make arrests.
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