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India not providing details on Samjhota: Malik
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that India is not providing details about Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Purohit who was allegedly involved in Samjhota express bombings in 2007, which killed at least 68 people.
Speaking to the media in Islamabad, Malik alleged that Colonel Purohit had also hired some militants to carry out the bombing.
"Colonel Purohit was interrogated by one of the director investigations, Kur Kury, who was killed in the attack. This clearly demonstrates that there were some Pakistan-based Islamists who had been hired to carry out the Samjohta Express attack. That is the dossier we have requested India to provide us with, but they haven't," said Malik.
"Even today I sent a message inviting them to come and sit with us and talk; we will bring our evidence and they can bring theirs," he added.
Regarding Swat, the minister denied any kind of extra-judicial killings in the valley.
He told the media that 2,200 militants have so far been killed in military offensive.
He said that the military has achieved substantial amount of success in the operations in tribal areas. He also mentioned that Pak-Afghan agreements on counter-terrorism are also due in a few weeks time.
As New Delhi and Islamabad take potshots at each other, non-state actors are thriving in the region, killing innocents in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.