Pak can't ignore David Headley's revelations, says SM Krishna

New Delhi: Foreign Minister S M Krishna has said that Islamabad must take seriousnote of what David Coleman Headley has told the FBI. "Headley'srevelations are in the public domain whether we like it or not. WhatHeadley said cannot be brushed under the carpet. I think whateverHeadley has said to the FBI has to be taken serious note of by allthose who are involved and then that concern of India has to beaddressed." David Coleman Headley is one of the main accused in the26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai.

Krishna was speaking to journalists while returning from Kabul where hehad gone to attend an international donors' conference. "India wantsthe dialogue with Pakistan to continue," but, the Foreign Ministersaid, "Our problems can't end in one sitting."

Earlier on Tuesday,  India's National Security Advisor ShivshankarMenon said that ISI's nexus with terror outfits is growing stronger.Menon also said  clear links between Pakistan's establishment andPakistani-American terrorist David Headley have been established duringHeadley's recent interrogation by Indian investigators.

"Forus,  it's been brought home most recently by what we learnt fromHeadley which confirms many of the things which we knew before. Andit's really the links between the official establishment and withexisting intelligence agencies, its that nexus, which makes it a muchharder phenomenon for us to deal with. Unfortunately what we know andwhat we see suggests that these links or this nexus, in fact, will notbe broken soon. If anything, it is getting stronger," said Menon.  (Watch | Read: Full text of speech)

Pakistanhas issued an angry rebuttal to India's National Security Advisor,Shivshankar Menon's comments. A Pakistan government spokesperson, inIslamabad, said Mr. Menon's baseless accusations were yet anothermanifestation of the Indian establishment's propagandistic stancetoward Pakistan.

Menon's remarks are more pointed than what theIndian Home Secretary, GK Pillai, said earlier this month, causing astorm at the India-Pakistan talks in Islamabad.

Just as India'sForeign Minister SM Krishna was heading to Pakistan, Pillai had saidthat Headley, who is in prison in America after being arrested by theFBI last year, had told Indian interrogators that Pakistan's ISI wasinvolved with planning and executing 26/11 "from beginning to end."Pakistani Foreign Minister SM Qureshi attacked Pillai at a pressconference attended by Krishna, arguing his were comments "uncalledfor." Qureshi also said Pillai's comments had been discussed during histalks with Krishna and claimed both agreed they were "uncalled for".Krishna said nothing to that. (Indo-Pak talks: After 6-hour-long meeting, differences in public)

Theoffense taken by Pakistan hasn't led India to soften its stand -Krishna after returning to India backed Pillai, stating that the HomeSecretary had only repeated what has been India's official stand allalong. (Krishna on Pillai: Pak wrong to make Hafiz Saeed comparison)

InPakistan on Monday, US secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said thatHeadley's interrogation has "revealed a startling set of facts" whichhave been shared with the Pakistani government.(Read: Revelations by Headley shared with Pak, says Hillary Clinton)

Sourcestell NDTV that Headley told Indian interrogators that the ISI had paidRs 25 lakhs to LeT to purchase the boat used by the ten Pakistaniterrorists who headed to Mumbai in November, 2008 to execute theworst-ever terror attack in India. Headley also said that he visitedfive terror camps in Pakistan, and that some of these were run by theISI. (Read: ISI men gave 25 lakhs to buy boat for Kasab, others: Headley) | (Watch: What David Headley said on the ISI)