Click to play videoNew Delhi: After successfully getting the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to ban Jamaat-ud-Dawa and proscribe Hafiz Saeed and Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi as terrorists, India is going full throttle to lay its hands on another of its most wanted - Jaish-e-Mohammad leader Maulana Masood Azhar.
In a statement, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee slammed Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's comments on Tuesday that the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack dossier was information and not evidence.
"There is a continuing pattern of evasiveness and denial in Pakistan's response. We have asked their government to undertake investigations in Pakistan and to share the results with us so as to bring the perpetrators to justice. Instead, we hear statements which reinforce the already strong doubts on Pakistan's capacity and willingness to cooperate," Mukherjee said.
But India is building up the pressure on Pakistan not just bilaterally but also through the world community.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that India is set to move the UN Security Council against Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar.
Pakistan has been contradicting itself on Azhar for more than a month issuing statements that range from Azhar being in detention to not being in Pakistan at all.
The listing by the UNSC, India hopes, will force Pakistan to meet squarely new Delhi's demand for his extradition.
"I do hope the materials which we have provided to Pakistan, evidences which we have given, they will act on it and they will ensure that the perpetrators of this terror act are brought to justice and some of the fugitives who have violated Indian laws and taken shelter in Pakistan will be handed over to India for proper justice," said Mukherjee.
Azhar, too, figures in India's most wanted list. He is alleged to have masterminded the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly attack and Parliament attack in 2001.
Azhar was released by the them National Democratic Alliance government along with two other terrorists - Harkat-ul-Ansar/Al Faran chief Umar Saeed Sheikh and Al Umar chief Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar - was released in exchange for the lives of 155 passengers and crew of the hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC 814 in Kandahar in 1999.
So the Maulana could be a useful consolation prize in election season..
(For updates you can share with your friends, follow IBNLive on Facebook, Twitter and Google+)
 |
 |
 |
|
displayed with permission. Use of the CNN name and/or logo on or as part of CNN-IBN does not derogate from the intellectual property rights of Cable News Network in respect of them.