Chinese minister in Delhi to mediate

India on Monday shared with China evidence about involvement of Pakistan-based elements in the Mumbai terror attack and urged Beijing to use its influence with
its ally Islamabad to cooperate on the issue.

Foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon gave details of the Mumbai attack to Chinese vice foreign minister He Yafei, who has been sent here as a special envoy amid a chill in Indo-Pak ties in the aftermath of the November 26 terror strikes.

During the two-hour-long meeting, Menon apprised He Yafei about the evidence showing that 10 heavily-armed terrorists were sent from Karachi to Mumbai to carry out the attack and that the three-day-long operation was guided from Pakistan.

India has compiled a dossier of evidence which includes confession of Mohammad Ajmal Amir, the lone terrorist arrested during the attack, satellite phone intercepts and record of logbooks recovered from a ship by which the 10 terrorists came from Karachi to Mumbai on November 26.