External affairs minister S.M. Krishna has said that 26/11 co-conspirator David Coleman Headley’s confessions were in the public domain and Pakistan could not brush them under the carpet.
Whatever Headley has told the FBI has to be taken seriously by all those concerned and India’s concerns have to be addressed, a PTI report said quoting Mr Krishna, who returned here from Kabul on Tuesday evening where he participated in an international conference on Afghanistan.
The minister’s remarks came on the day when Pakistan dismissed as “baseless” national security adviser Shivshankar Menon’s remarks, made earlier in the day, in which he said that the terrorist groups’ links to “the official establishment and with existing intelligence agencies” was getting stronger.
Asked about the roadmap for the India-Pakistan talks, Mr Krishna reiterated that New Delhi was keen to continue the dialogue process with Pakistan.
“I have just concluded one dialogue. As I have said earlier I have invited foreign minister Qureshi to visit India in the later part of the year. So, I am looking forward to that so that we can take it up from where we left in Islamabad,” Mr Krishna said.
Mr Krishna said he had shared his assessment of his recent meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi, with US secretary of state Hillary Clinton when he met her on the margins of the conference.
The external affairs minister conveyed to Ms Clinton that the India-Pakistan dialogue could not be over in one sitting, and that India wanted a graduated approach to deal with the problems with Pakistan.
Ms Clinton, who was in Islamabad Monday, had said that interrogation of Headley had thrown up a “revealing set of facts” that have been shared with Pakistani authorities.