{EOP}India Had Insufficient Evidence Against Pakistan: Cable

KARACHI: US ambassador to Pakistan Anne W Patterson, as a result of no progress on Mumbai attacks investigation, had made it clear to the Washington in 2009 that India had presented insufficient evidence against the senior leaders of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, according to a cable released by WikiLeaks on Friday.

The leak said, Anne W Patterson the then ambassador to Pakistan had in a wire to the Washington mentioned that Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and other investigators had insufficient evidence for prosecution against Lashkar-e-Tayyiba’s Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Zarar Shah and Mazhar Iqbal Alqama.
Patterson said that FIA was forced, as a result of political pressure, to arrest and charge the three LeT leaders and that FIA was still without solid evidence to begin a formal trial.
She also told Washington that the Indian government and FBI were in hold of significant evidence against the above LeT leaders but the FBI was awaiting a green signal from New Delhi before handing it over to Pakistan.
The wire said that Indian foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon told a foreign envoy that India had sought permission from its court for handing over the evidence to Pakistan government.