Most of the gunmen were Pakistani, but now they need more information...just another stall tactic.
From The WSJ:
Pakistan has found that most of the gunmen involved in last year's attacks in Mumbai were Pakistani but needs more evidence from India to try the suspects it has in custody, officials in Islamabad said. Authorities in Pakistan who have been investigating links between its citizens and the attack had been expected to issue their findings Monday. Instead, the government said it needs more evidence from India to proceed. "Without substantial evidence from India it will be exceedingly difficult to complete the investigation and proceed with the case," the defense committee of Pakistan's cabinet said in a statement. The delay in issuing the probe's findings appears to reflect a conflict within Pakistan's government and its security services about how far the country should go in acknowledging the role Pakistanis played in the November gun-and-grenade rampage that left 171 people dead, including nine gunmen. While many Pakistani officials are eager to satisfy international demands for a complete crackdown on the alleged culprits, they also don't want to be seen as caving to India. Indian, U.S. and British officials say they have passed on conclusive evidence linking the attack to a Pakistani Islamic militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba. India has also said that all 10 gunmen, including the sole attacker it captured alive, were Pakistani, and New Delhi has given Islamabad a dossier of evidence it said supports its claims. "We've given them substantial evidence," an Indian foreign ministry official said after Monday's statement by Pakistan. But the official said India would await Pakistan's new questions. A Pakistani official familiar with the inquiry said the investigation has found that most of the attackers were from Pakistan. Islamabad has acknowledged the captured gunman, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, is Pakistani. Pakistani investigators want India to grant them access to Mr. Kasab, said the Pakistani official. Neither the statement nor the official said anything directly about the dozens of Lashkar members who have been rounded up in Pakistan since the attack.
India, on the other hand denounces the Pakistanis as insincere and has further delayed preparing the chargesheet on the lone surviving bomber, but announces that FBI agents will be deposed. Upping the ante?
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