Pakistan rejects India's 'most wanted' list

Pakistan rejects India's 'most wanted' list

2011-05-25 04:42:50 GMT+7 (ICT)

ISLAMABAD (BNO NEWS) -- The Pakistani Interior Ministry on Tuesday rejected the list of the 50 "most wanted fugitives" forwarded by India for tracking criminals allegedly hiding in the country, the Times of India reported.

The interior ministry said in a letter addressed to the Foreign Office that India should first probe if those named in the list were living in the country, as it turned out that two of them have been living there.

The ministry sent the letter to the foreign ministry after reviewing it to return it to India. It will be handed over to the Indian high commissioner in Pakistan within a few days.

India handed over the list to Islamabad during the home secretary-level talks between the two countries in March. The list includes runaway crime boss Dawood Ibrahim, Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and the masterminds of November 2008 Mumbai attack and other terror strikes in India.

Earlier, Indian home minister P Chidambaram admitted that there were multiple errors in the list, after two men on the list were found to be in India. One of them is out on bail in Thane, while the other one is in a Mumbai jail.

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