Pakistani Envoy Details Government’s Response to Mumbai Investigation

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• RAY SUAREZ:

  Joining us now is Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani.

  Mr. Ambassador, welcome. You heard Secretary of State Rice call in your country for robust cooperation, and she says she's been promised it. What has the Pakistani government undertaken to do? What are you going to do in response?

  HUSAIN HAQQANI, Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States: Well, the most important thing to understand is that Pakistan feels the pain of our neighbors.

  Now, we do have a burden of history. There are people in Pakistan who think that there are elements in India who do not want Pakistan to continue existing as a separate state. There are people in India who feel that there are elements in Pakistan that would continue to attack India through terrorist means.

  Because of that, the discourse between our nations always becomes angry. But the fact of the matter is that, from the day the attacks took place, Pakistan's position has been that we understand India's pain and, if evidence is shared with us, we will act on it.

  So now that the evidence is beginning to be shared, we are acting on that. And I will not get into the details of that, because it involves intelligence matters.

  But let me just say, Pakistan will take action against any elements inside Pakistan that are found to be responsible for a terrorist attack against our neighbor or anywhere else in the world. And no one will be spared as long as we are told what the evidence is against them and as long as we know who we are targeting.