WikiLeaks: India's tough talk with US

New Delhi:  The latest WikiLeaks revelations expose the tough talk that took place between the United States and India post 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

A cable from a US diplomat in India quotes former Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon telling Richard Boucher, the then Assistant Secretary of State, "Let's not insult one another by telling a story that the Pakistan Army was not involved. They're either unwilling to take action, or incapable, or both; any way you look at it, they're involved."

India has repeatedly pointed to lack of progress in the trial of seven Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operatives in Pakistan who were arrested in connection with the 26/11 attacks on November 26, 2008, in which 166 people were killed.

The cable quoting Menon is one of about 3,038 US diplomatic cables sent from Delhi and leaked by the whistle-blower website. 

WikiLeaks is releasing a quarter million secret US documents and 5,087 records amongst these refer to India.

The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February this year, contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in Washington DC. Of these, 15,652 of the cables are classified Secret.