London: India will provide “credible evidence” to Pakistan regarding the July 11 Mumbai blasts, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
“We will take advantage of that (Pakistan's offer to cooperate against terrorism) and will provide them with what we consider is credible evidence,” Singh said in reply to a question on India's allegation that Pakistan-based terror groups and the ISI were responsible for the blasts.
India and Pakistan are in the process of setting up a joint mechanism to fight terrorism and Islamabad has offered to cooperate in the blasts investigation.
Singh and Blair, who held a 90-minute meeting, condemned terrorism "wherever and whenever it occurs." Blair said a strong message must be sent out that terrorism "cannot be tolerated."
"No country, or government or state should support it," he said.
Terrorism figured prominently in the talks between Singh and Blair and the Indian side is believed to have shared evidence regarding the Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai blasts.
Blair said an announcement regarding new measures of cooperation would be made soon. "We agreed that there is need for a coherent global effort with shared perspectives and commitments to combat terrorism wherever and whenever such attacks take place," Singh said after the talks.
Blair said the two countries would be strengthening cooperation against terrorism as both "tragically" faced terrorism in London and Mumbai and shared common goal.
Noting that terrorist elements were growing, the British Prime Minister said his country and India needed to cooperate and "we are doing that." Blair said it was the world's tragedy that terrorism is everywhere, adding the solution was that solution was that the right-thinking people, of any religion, should stand up against it.
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