PTI

Islamabad, Jan 6: After getting a dossier from India on its probe into the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan on Monday said it was willing to cooperate with New Delhi to unearth "legally scrutable" evidence in the terror strikes, while assuring the US that it will soon respond to the "information" given to it.

"Pakistan and India must cooperate in the investigations with a view to gathering evidence that was legally scrutable," Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir told High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal, who handed over the dossier.

The same evidence, about involvement of elements based in Pakistan in the Mumbai attacks, was shared by Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon with Pakistan's High Commissioner Shahid Malik in New Delhi earlier in the day.

Bashir told Pal that Pakistan was "carrying out its own investigations and was determined to uncover the full facts pertaining to the Mumbai terrorist attacks".

The Pakistan government will "evaluate the information provided by India so far," he said.

Islamabad also assured visiting US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher, whose arrival here this morning coincided with the handing over of the evidence by India, that it was examining the "information".

There was no official word on Boucher's meetings with top Pakistani leaders. But TV channels reported that Boucher was told that Islamabad's formal response to the information provided by New Delhi would be framed shortly.

Meanwhile, 'The News' daily reported that Pakistan was "in a fix as to how to react to" the letter of Ajmal Amir Iman 'Kasab', the lone terrorist captured in the Mumbai attacks.

Islamabad would respond to Iman's request for legal aid shortly, the paper quoted sources as saying.