New Delhi: Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit has said that India does not know where Dawood Ibrahim was as New Delhi has not shared any dossier about the underworld don with Islamabad.
"How could Pakistan act against Dawood when Government of India has said that they do not know the whereabouts of the mafia don," Basit said while speaking to India Today group here on Monday.
On Indo-Pak dialogue, he noted that Pakistani Premier Nawaz Sharif had always underlining the importance of having a dialogue with India.
When asked as to whether there was a commitment that the dialogue would continue despite a possible terror attack, Basit said that the dialogue between the two nations would not get derailed in case of another terror attack.
The Pakistani envoy said that according to him both sides were committed this time around to not allow 'those forces to sabotage or thwart the dialogue process'.
On meeting Hurriyat leaders, Basit maintained that Pakistani representatives had been meeting the Hurriyat leaders for the last more that 20 years, adding that he did see any change their policy.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday expressed the hope that the renewed dialogue between India and Pakistan will open a new chapter of peace and development in the region.
Meanwhile, making a statement on her visit to Pakistan in both houses of Parliament, Sushma Swaraj said it was decided that a "Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue" would start and foreign secretaries of the two countries would work out the modalities under the "new dialogue".
"The new dialogue, we sincerely hope, marks a new beginning also for peace and development in the whole region," she said, as per PTI.
Sushma Swaraj said India emphasised the need to speed up the judicial process in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack by Pakistani terrorists.
