India Demands Pakistan Hand Over Fugitives

MUMBAI, India - With tensions high between Islamabad and New Delhi after the attacks in Mumbai, the Indian foreign minister said Tuesday his country had demanded that Pakistan arrest and hand over about 20 people wanted under Indian law as “fugitives.”

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The demand was made when India summoned Pakistan’s ambassador on Monday evening and told him that Pakistanis were responsible for the terrorist attacks here last week and must be punished. “We have in our demarche asked the arrest and handover of those persons who are settled in Pakistan and who are fugitive of Indian law,” Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters in New Delhi on Tuesday. A list of about 20 names was handed over to the Pakistani envoy, he said. Facing public anger against both the Indian government and Pakistan, officials of India’s Foreign Ministry suggested that the planners of the attacks were still at large in Pakistan, and that they expected “strong action would be taken” by Pakistan against those responsible for the violence, according to a statement released by the ministry. Nine of the 10 men who appear to have carried out the attacks are now dead; the remaining one is in custody. More...

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