The Indian government said yesterday it had evidence that a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group was to blame for Thursday's suicide attack on parliament that claimed 12 lives.
Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said India had issued a formal complaint to the Pakistan High Commission claiming it has "technical evidence" that the attack was the "handiwork" of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants.
Five gunmen stormed the red sandstone complex in a suicide attack, killing six security force personnel and a gardener on Thursday.
Singh said the complaint, given to Pakistan High Commissioner Ashraf Jahangir Qazi by Indian Foreign Secretary Chokila Iyer, demanded that Pakistan halt the activities of two Pakistan-based Islamic militant groups, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
The formal demand also called on Islamabad to arrest the leaders of the militant groups and freeze their financial assets.
"I wish to emphasize that these demands are in accordance with necessary international obligations and commitments in countering terrorism. We have made a demarche that India has technical evidence that yesterday's terrorist attack on Parliament House was not just against the symbol of Indian democracy and the sovereignty of the Indian people, that it was the handiwork of a terrorist organization based in Pakistan, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba," Singh said.
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