No response from Pakistan: Chidambaram

New Delhi, Feb 5 (PTI) India's National Security Advisor
M K Narayanan was contradicted for the second time in three
days Thursday with Home Minister P Chidambaram making it clear
that India has not received any response on the dossier given
to Pakistan on the Mumbai attacks.

Chidambaram's remarks comes close on the heels of
Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee asserting
that Islamabad had not conveyed to New Delhi progress in its
investigations on the November 26 terror strikes in Mumbai.

"There is no confusion. Both the External Affairs
Minister and I have said that we have not received any
response to the dossier given to Pakistan as yet," Chidambaram
told reporters here after a Cabinet meeting.

He was responding to a question whether there was any
confusion in the government in the backdrop of the National
Security Advisor's statement that Pakistan had reverted to
India with a number of questions on the Indian dossier.

Narayanan came out with a clarification yesterday for
his comments that US President Barack Obama would be "barking
up the wrong tree" if he links Kashmir issue with addressing
the turmoil in Pakistan's tribal areas.

But, he did not make any mention about his controversial
remarks in the same interview that Pakistan had reverted to
India with a number of questions on the Indian dossier on the
Mumbai terror attack.

To another question on his earlier statement on the
possibility of India snapping ties with Pakistan, Chidambaram
said he was misquoted.

"What I had said was that there are many, many ties
between India and Pakistan. If Pakistan does not respond (to
the dossier), these may get weaker and weaker and may one day
snap. It is a thought process and not a policy statement," he
clarified. PTI ARC