India expected Miliband to be more understanding: Narayanan

National security advisor M K Narayanan on Sunday said the country never expected British foreign secretary David Miliband to support Pakistan's position that those wanted by India for terrorism need not be handed over but tried in Pakistan.

In an interview to Karan Thapar for Devil's Advocate on CNN-IBN, Narayanan said the country thought Miliband would be more understanding and sympathetic.

Replying to a question on reports that Miliband does not support India's request to extradite criminal who are in Pakistan and India should give Islamabad's judicial system a chance to act, Narayanan said, "I do not know what he meant. You should ask Mr David Miliband himself. I don't know what he was trying to say."
   
When asked if he was disappointed with with the position that he (Miliband) took, the NSA said, "Davis Miliband is the foreign secretary of United Kingdom with which we have extremely close relation. I think the relationship between United Kingdom and India is excellent, between Gordon Brown and our prime minister is excellent.

"So if you take the totality we did not expect this from British foreign secretary. We thought he would be more understanding, sympathetic."

Miliband, who was in the country in middle of last month and later also visited Pakistan had said, "Prosecution in the Pakistani system is satisfactory."