'Credible evidence' of Pak involvement in 7/11 blasts: PM

NEW DELHI: In the midst of a controversy over National Security Advisor M K Narayanan's comments, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said there was "credible evidence" of Pakistani involvement in the July 11 train blasts in Mumbai.

"All I can say is that there is credible evidence", he told reporters who asked him about the comments made by Narayanan that there was "pretty good" but not "clinching" evidence of ISI's involvement while Union Home Secretary V K Duggal spoke of fairly solid evidence.

On the Indo-Pak Joint Mechanism to fight terrorism, he said "it is a trial. We have to experiment... we have to talk as we are not going to war with Pakistan".

Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who will be the new External Affairs Minister, said India will share information with Pakistan regarding the Mumbai blasts and see the response from the other side.

"We will exchange information with Pakistan. After that we have to see how they react," he said.

On the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement, Mukherjee said the US government had given "assurance that they will try their level best to see the deal through."

Uncertainty is looming large over the fate of the deal as a bill on the issue has not yet been put to vote in the US Senate whose tenure expired this month. Now hopes are pinned on the 'lame-duck' session expected to meet after the November 7 Congressional elections.

With regard to the External Affairs portfolio being given to him, Mukherjee said "it is the prerogative of the Prime Minister to shuffle Cabinet."