New Delhi: While the war hysteria may be dying down, the war of words continues between India and Pakistan.
A day after Pakistan's National Security Advisor admitted on CNN-IBN to the possibility that the Mumbai attackers were from Pakistan, Indian officials have indicated that this is not enough.
Sources in the Ministry of External Affairs say that Pakistan is getting increasingly isolated and cornered in the global community.
MEA officials say that brazen denials cannot work in the face of hard evidence and that it's not just India, but also the FBI and British intelligence that have provided solid proof of Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
MEA officials say that Pakistan needs to show that it has embarked on a 'course correction'.
On Tuesday night, Pakistan turned around on its position admitting to CNN-IBN that some or all of the terrorists who carried out the 26 November attacks on Mumbai could have been Pakistani nationals.
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN on the show India at 9, Pakistan's National Security Advisor Mahmud Ali Durrani said that Pakistan is examining the letter written by the lone arrested attacker Ajmal Kasab. When asked if he would admit that Kasab and some or all of the 10 attackers could have been Pakistani, Durrani said, "Could be…could be- that's all I will say as of now, while the investigations are still being completed."
Durrani's comment come on a day the Pakistan government softened its war rhetoric. He told CNN-IBN categorically that no extra troops mobilisation had occurred on the Pakistani side of the border and Line of Control in the past few weeks. In the interview, Durrani called for calm, and appealed for India and Pakistan to work together to "remove the menace of terror" from this region of the world.
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