It's about Pakistan's commitment: India

December 22, 2008
India is hardening its stand vis-a-vis Pakistan nearly four weeks after the Mumbai attacks.
"Everything with Pakistan is on pause," a senior official in the Government of India said on Monday.
The Indian government is more or less convinced that the Mumbai attacks have been carried out by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba , which cannot function without the help of Pakistan's establishment.
However, India will wait for the investigations to be completed before making any charges against the Pakistan , the Inter Services Intelligence or elements in the ISI.
In the hardest reaction since the Mumbai attacks, a source told the media that India wants Masood Azhar, head of the Jaish-e-Mohammad terror group, fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and others to subject to the Indian judicial system.
The benchmark is being fixed in the form of a firm demand to hand over these terrorists to India.
"Let us see what Pakistan is capable of doing," the official said.
A source said, "Actually, it is not even about Masood Azhar, it is about the commitment of Pakistan. It is about accepting the principle about handing them over to India."
"India's policy is two-fold," he added. "India wants to prevent the reoccurrence of such attacks and two; India wants punishment for the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks and previous attacks. Let us see what Pakistan does, we will do what we have to do."