The Pakistan government is set to reject New Delhi's list of 50 most wanted men submitted to it saying it should first probe if those named in it were living in India, Pakistani media reported on Wednesday.
India had handed over the list of fugitives to Pakistan during the home secretary-level talks between the two countries in March this year. Two men on the list were later found to be in India, one out on bail in Thane and the other lodged in a Mumbai jail.
In a letter addressed to its foreign office, Pakistan's interior ministry said India should first probe if the people named in the list have been living in that country, as it turned out that two of them have been living there.
The Indian government had suffered a major embarrassment after it was found that two of the "fugitives" suspected to be hiding in Pakistan were actually living in India and were undergoing trial.
The interior ministry has directed its foreign office to send the list back to India for authentication. Pakistani media reports suggested that the list would soon be handed over to the Indian high commissioner in Pakistan.
The list contains names like Dawood Ibrahim, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed and the masterminds of 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008 and other terror strikes in India. Earlier, Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram had admitted that there were several errors in the list, but had ruled out any possibility of withdrawing it.
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