Islamabad, Pakistan: December 2,2008 – IR Summary/Agencies – Keeping in view the strong pressure from India and US Administration after Mumbai attack, Pakistan on Tuesday has offered to set up a joint investigating mechanism with India with a view to jointly investigating the causes of terror attack on Mumbai and added that Pakistan would also consider India’ s demand to hand over LeT chief Hafiz Mohammad and other terrorist escapees.

Pakistan seems to have bowed due to strong weight put on Islamabad to extend "total" cooperation to India in the probe of Mumbai terror attack. 

Pakistan is "ready to extend a hand of cooperation" and assist "in every way" in tracing the perpetrators of the Mumbai strikes, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said during a brief broadcast on the state-run PTV.

He proposed formation of a "joint investigating mechanism and a joint commission", saying Pakistan is ready to "compose a team to help India" in the investigation.
Qureshi' remarks came a day after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who arrives in Delhi tomorrow, said in London that she did not want to jump to any conclusions on who is involved in the attacks "but this is time for a complete, absolute, total transparency and cooperation and that is what we expect (from Pakistan)."

Asked about India's demand for the handing over of 20 wanted terrorists, Information Minister Sherry Rehman told reporters: "We have to look at it formally once we receive it (list of terrorists) and we will frame a response to that."
India's list includes terrorists like Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Mohammad and Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar besides Dawood Ibrahim, who are based in that country and are suspected to be behind terror attacks in India.