Click to play videoNew Delhi: The United States of America has a special interest in the investigations into the Mumbai terror attacks and will pursue it till its conclusion, its Ambassador to India David Mulford said.
Mulford said that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will be granted access in Pakistan to investigate Mumbai terror attacks link.
"The FBI will pursue the evidence that they have gathered in Mumbai. They will take it to Pakistan because under our law, if Americans are killed, the US has the duty to pursue all avenues," Mulford said in New Delhi on Monday.
Reacting to Lashkar-e-Toiba front Jamaat-ud-Dawa changing its name to circumvent a United Nation Security Council ban, Mulford said, "The name may have changed. You don't change the spots in a leopard."
Mulford was speaking on the sidelines of a function to commemorate the 50th year of the opening of the American Embassy building in New Delhi.
He, however, declined to comment of the evidence given by India to Pakistan on the terror attacks in which 10 Laskar-e-Toiba terrorists trained in Pakistan attacked Mumbai and took many people hostage at three landmarks of the metropolis.
In the siege that lasted for nearly 60 hours over 200 people including six Americans were killed.
Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon will meet heads of missions of friendly countries later on Monday and share with them evidence about the complicity of Pakistan-based groups in the Mumbai attacks.
India is trying to get China to pressurise Pakistan to end its cross border terrorism.
Menon has already met visiting Chinese Vice Foreign Minister, He Yafei. He Yafei is also expected to meet External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
India has given Pakistan evidence about involvement of Pakistan-based elements in Mumbai terror attacks, said External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Mallik and handed over the evidence.
"What happened in Mumbai is an unpardonable crime. We ask Pakistan to implement bilateral commitments it has given at the highest levels," Mukherjee said in New Delhi on Monday.
Mukherjee also said that the evidence has been shared with some other countries and heads of foreign missions will be briefed on the Mumbai attacks in the next 24 hours.
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