Pakistan backs India anti-terrorist effort

NEW DELHI, July 3 (UPI) -- Pakistan Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani, in New Delhi Tuesday for talks with India, said Islamabad will support India's fight against terrorism.

Jilani said he has been given a mandate to promote dialogue between the two countries that has been stalled by the 2008 Mumbai attacks, in which 166 people were killed.

The arrest last week of Syed Zabiuddin, also known as Abu Jundal, accused of being a key plotter in the attacks, is expected to be a main focus of the talks, Indo-Asian News Service reported.

The Express Tribune said the alleged terrorist has not implicated Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence in the attack.

"We have matched his voice sample from the recorded conversation during the Mumbai attack," a senior intelligence officer in India said. "Although he is talking about his role in giving Hindi lessons to terrorists and also identifying places in Mumbai, he is not ready to give information about the involvement of ISI in the attack."