Pakistan Has List of "Wanted" Persons for India: FM

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Pakistan Has List of "Wanted" Persons for India: FM

Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar said in Islamabad Saturday that Pakistan had the list of wanted persons which would be handed over to India with the course of time.

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Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar said in Islamabad Saturday that Pakistan had the list of wanted persons which would be handed over to India with the course of time.

"We have names on our list and we will forward that with the course of time to the government of India," he said while addressing a joint press conference with Canadian Deputy Prime Minister John Many.

Responding to a question about handing over Indian nationals alleged to be in Pakistan, Sattar said neither country had any reason to give protection to criminals who had committed crimes in one country or other.

He said India had now provided (on Friday) to Pakistan the names and back grounds of most of these 20 people whose list had been given to Pakistan earlier.

"I saw that list this morning and we shall of course study that information very carefully," he said.

As far the extradition was concerned, he said, it was a complex legal and political issue.

"We shall examine the cases of Indian nationals who are alleged to be in Pakistan, try to trace them, study the information provided to us by the government of India with regard to these people and then take further action in accordance with the merits," he said.

The extradition of the 20 "most wanted" -- including both Indian and Pakistani nationals -- is one of India's main demands for resolving the stand-off which has left the two countries poised for war.

President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out sending Pakistani nationals to India, saying they will instead be tried under Pakistani law if evidence was presented against them.

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