ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - India urged Pakistan on Saturday to put more people on trial for the 2008 Mumbai attacks which killed 166 people in India's financial capital.
"We think that more people were behind the 26/11 attack and more people should be prosecuted," Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram said, referring to the date in November when the attack began.
"That point has been made to the Pakistani government," Chidambaram told reporters a day after talks with Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
Pakistan has put seven Islamist militants on trial for the November 26-28 attacks.
Although Chidambaram did not mention him by name, India also wants Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group and the man New Delhi says masterminded the bloodshed, to face trial.
Pakistan has acknowledged the Mumbai attack was plotted and partly launched from its soil but has maintained that India has not provided sufficient evidence against Saeed.
Pakistan's Supreme Court last month upheld a lower court's decision to release Saeed, who also leads an Islamist charity, Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The U.N. Security Council put Saeed and his charity on a list of al Qaeda associates.
Chidambaram said he had "positive" talks with Malik on Friday while Malik described the meeting as a "good beginning."
The meeting came a day after the two nuclear rivals' top diplomats expressed optimism that relations would improve after Mumbai.
Relations between the uneasy neighbors, who have fought three wars since 1947, went into a freeze after Pakistani-based militants killed 166 people in the Indian financial capital.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani met on the sidelines of a regional conference last month and agreed to get talks going, which India broke off after the attack.
The foreign ministers of Pakistan and India will meet on July 15 in Islamabad to push forward efforts aimed at normalizing ties.
(Writing by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Bryson Hull and Michael Roddy)
