Pakistan's new high commissioner to India Salman Bashir said on Sunday that the same night when Abu Jundal was arrested, Pakistan had offered Indian Home Ministry its readiness to work on it together.
"All we have said we really believe it that we ought to be in a cooperative board and to work all these, what relates to terror that deflects both India and Pakistan together," Salman Bashir said while responding to Karan Thapar in an interview telecast Sunday night by CNN-IBN.
When Bashir was asked as to how did he account for the fact that Abu Jundal had a Pakistani passport, two Pakistani identity cards and he was assisted by Pakistan in going to Saudi Arabia, he said: "The same night, when there was this disclosure in media about Abu Jundal's arrest, we had offered to the Home Ministry, to the Government of India, our readiness to work on this together. And the Foreign Secretary repeated that, I think, really the way forward on Abu Jundal, and whatever pertains to all these domain, is to interact more to cooperate more, because I think the objective is the same."
When asked about Pakistan's reported lobbying with Saudi Arabia to have Abu Jundal deported to Islamabad and not sent to Delhi, Bashir said that he had seen media reports to that effect and he was not in a position to corroborate that.
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