ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Tuesday refrained from a formal reaction to the reported refusal by India to share the details of 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing probe, saying it will do so when New Delhi makes its stance known officially and not through the media.
India’s Home Affairs Ministry has asked the Ministry of External Affairs to tell Pakistan that “India cannot share details of the Samjhauta blast probe right now, as investigations are at a preliminary stage and it will be premature”, media reports from New Delhi said.
According to a report, this comes a day after Pakistan asked India to provide an early update to it on the investigations into the 2007 Samjhauta Express train bombing in the wake of RSS leader Swami Aseemanand’s confession about the involvement of Sangh activists in the attack.
India’s Acting Deputy High Commissioner GV Srinivas was called to the Foreign Office by Director General (South Asia) Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi, who said information on progress in the investigations should be provided by New Delhi “at the earliest”.
FO spokesman Abdul Basit said it was only a media report that India had refused to share the details the bombing.
“We will come up with our reaction when India does that formally and not through the media,” he said.
However, he said it was a reality that India had not informed Pakistan about its probe in the 2007 bombing despite the passage of four years.
“We expect that India must share its findings with Pakistan and it doesn’t matter whether they have reached the stage of maturity of not,” Basit said.
