India may snap trade ties with Pakistan

India may break off business, transport and tourist links with Pakistan if it fails to help investigate the Mumbai terror attacks, home minister P Chidambaram warned, pressing Islamabad to “cooperate soon”.

“There are many, many links between India and Pakistan, and if Pakistan does not cooperate and does not help to bring the perpetrators to heel, those ties will become weaker and weaker and one day snap,” Chidambaram told The Times daily.

“Why will we entertain Pakistani businessmen? Why will we entertain tourists in India? Why will we send tourists there?” Chidambaram refused to discuss when the measures may be introduced.

Accusing Islamabad of doing nothing to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks, Chidambaram said Islamabad has provided “nothing” after New Delhi handed over a dossier of evidence linking elements within that country to the 26/11 strikes.

On what Pakistan was doing to help with the investigation, he said: “Zero. What have they provided? Nothing.”