No info from India on 26/11 as yet: Interpol

New Delhi: Pakistan is at it again. Turning a blind eye to all the evidence, the nation has denied that the lone terrorist captured alive after the Mumbai terror attacks - Ajmal Kasab - is a Pakistani national.

The Interior Minister of Pakistan, Rahman Malik said there are no records in any government agency of his existence. However, several Pakistani and international newspapers and television channels have exposed this lie many times.

"We have not been provided by any evidence, official or unofficial, by India. As far as Kasab is concerned, we found out about him through the media. I got him checked on NADRA's database and there is no record of him there," Malik said.

"The letter that has been reportedly written by Kasab was sent to us by our Embassy last night. We have sent it to experts to be examined and our response should be given to you by today or tomorrow at the latest," he added.

Meanwhile, an Interpol delegation led by its Secretary-General Ronald K Noble is in Pakistan to seek its cooperation to help identify terrorists worldwide, including those involved in the November 26 attacks on Mumbai, and to enhance cooperation in the war on terror.

"The team is visiting Pakistan to seek the country's agreement to work through Interpol to help identify terrorists worldwide, including those behind the deadly November 26-29 terrorist bombings in Mumbai," said a statement from Interpol.

It will discuss the ways in which Interpol can work with Pakistan "in relation to the Mumbai bombings to enhance regional and global investigative efforts on the terrorist attacks".

"The team will "enhance cooperation in the fight against terrorism in the wake of the September 20 suicide truck bombing at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad", the statement said.

It will provide a classified briefing to Pakistani officials on the Marriott Hotel bombing which killed nearly 60 people, including the Czech envoy and two US Marines.

At the same press conference at which Rehman Malik was speaking, the Noble confirmed Pakistan's statement that India has not yet shared any information with the nation on the 26/11 investigations.

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"India's Government has not authorised India's police agencies to enter any data relating to the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai in the Interpol's databases. In short, the answer is that the amount of information that Interpol has on the attacks, is the same as what the media has at the moment," Noble stated.

"It is entirely India's decision on what and when to share with the Interpol. There is no information that would help identify the Mumbai attackers yet from India's end. However, Interpol has recieved full cooperation from Pakistan so far," he added.

INTERPOL SEEKS PAK COOPERATION IN IDENTIFYING TERRORISTS

A special Interpol delegation is deployed to India to aid investigations in the Mumbai attacks. But the Interpol Secretary General Richard Nobel now says the Indian government is yet to share any conclusive information with the agency. Richard Nobel was speaking in Islamabad.

Interpol will also discuss the organisation's offer to deploy its advanced technology to secure Pakistan's borders by next year.

The technology, known as MIND/FIND, enables immigration officials to carry out direct screening of passports and identity documents on a real-time basis against Interpol's global database of over 16 million stolen and lost travel documents.

The team will also discuss the possibility of Pakistan seconding a police officer to Interpol's General Secretariat in Lyon, France to share expertise with the world police community.

"It is only the sharing of critical police information on terrorism through Interpol's global tools and services, including its databases on wanted persons and lost or stolen travel documents, that can help countries to protect themselves from events such as the Marriott and Mumbai bombings in Pakistan and India respectively," Noble said after meeting the Director General of Pakistan's Federal Investigative Agency, Tariq Parvez, on Monday.

Noble travelled to Pakistan after a visit to India, where he met Home Minister P Chidambaram to review Interpol's investigative and counter-terrorism assistance following the Mumbai attacks.