Click to play videoNew Delhi: Days ahead of the Indo-Pak talks, a visiting American diplomat has virtually given a clean chit to Pakistan on charges of sponsoring terrorism.
“Many of the links (of groups) that are talked about go back to their origin and ties in Pakistan. Pakistan in fact has banned most, though not all the groups (blamed for terrorism in India),” says US Assistant Secretary of State, Richard Boucher.
Meanwhile, Indians feel less charitable. So when the two foreign secretaries meet next week, India will present credible evidence of Pakistani involvement in the 7/11 Mumbai blasts.
But India will only give those bits, which can be shared with Islamabad before the Mumbai police files a chargesheet in court.
On the table, is also a complete lowdown on Pakistan's links with all major terror strikes in India over the past one year.
Pakistan will be expected to investigate these leads and also agree on the contours of the Havana joint anti-terror mechanism.
And if there is any slip up, New Delhi will be convinced that Musharraf was never serious about helping Manmohan Singh fight terrorism. It will be done even as foreign ministry sources admit that the trail leading up to the ISI is often unclear and therefore the onus lies on Musharraf to prove otherwise.
But India's Pakistan policy has hardly been consistent over the recent past from calling off the composite dialogue process after the Mumbai blasts to agreeing to talk once again thereafter.
However, some believe the upcoming talks will test India as much as Pakistan. They'll test India's ability to provide evidence to back up allegations.
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