Also a National Investigation Agency team is slated to go to Islamabad in mid-January 2013 to take forward the probe, said the visiting Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

Mallik met the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Saturday. He also met the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushama Swaraj and National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon.

On Friday he met the Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Sindhe to operationalise the new visa regime between the two countries.

Speaking to an Indian TV channel, Mallik denied reports widely attributed to him in the media that he had equated the demolition of the Babri Masjid with terror attacks, and offered an assurance that he would get the death of Kargil martyr Captain Saurabh Kalia investigated.

He said that he 'had never compared' terror attacks with the December 6, 1992 mosque demolition.

'I am here with a message of love and peace, and both countries are working on a roadmap of peace and love, there is no option,' Mallik said and added

'When I spoke of Babri, I never compared it with terror acts.'

'What I said is that we do not want ugly incidents... Never made such a comparison,' Malik said.

On Saurabh Kalia, he said: 'My full sympathies are with the family... Since the matter concerns the ministry of defence, I will take the information and have it investigated... The cause of death is not yet determined. If he was tortured, how could you expect that we would give such a body (back), knowing the reaction it would elicit.'

Mallik also said that India had 'never raised with Pakistan in any way' the issue of Kalia's death and it was not part of his agenda in India this time.

Capt Saurabh Kalia's mutilated and tortured body had been handed over to India after the 1999 Kargil conflict. Kalia's father has taken his son's torture-killing to the Supreme Court, saying Pakistan should be told to apologise. He has also approached the UN Human Rights Commission asking it to probe his son's death as a war crime.

On the proposed visit of NIA team from India to Pakistan, Mallik said : 'Let the director general of FIA (Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency) and NIA sit together and resolve issues.'

Shinde had raised the issue of the NIA team's visit during his meeting with Malik on the sidelines of the SAARC ministerial meeting in the Maldives in September. The NIA wants to go to Pakistan to examine material evidence against key masterminds and accused in the 2008 attacks that claimed 166 lives.

Malik said that Shinde had taken up the matter of voice samples of the 26/11 handlers, which India hopes to match with the ones on tape giving directions during the 2008 attacks.

He said according to Pakistan's law the voice samples 'cannot be given unless the permission is given by accused himself'.

'We have moved the high court on the matter of (Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Zaki ur Rehman) Lakhvi's voice sample and it is pending there,' he said, adding that the high court was reminded two weeks ago.

'The job of investigators and prosecutors is to bring the matter before court'.'

To a question on hastening the trial of the seven people, including Lakhvi in a Rawalpindi court, he said: 'We are trying our best to have the trial on a day to day basis. That application is before the court.' The hearing is now once a week.

Malik said the petition on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination has been before the court for the past four years.

'You must see our determination... We have discussed all the matters that in the past brought some irritation,' said the Pakistani minister.

On LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, Malik said the Mumbai attacks mastermind had been bailed out thrice by the court and 'we have been prohibited to arrest him, these are the orders of the high court'.

He repeated his statement of Friday, asking India to provide 'substantive evidence (against Saeed) that can stand the test of court'.

He said the Mumbai attacks trial was proceeding according to Pakistan's judicial system. 'Kasab's trial was according to India's judicial system, and when Kasab was hanged we never said anything,' said Malik.

'We have done our best to arrest Saeed, and he was bailed out every time. Do you want me to violate the court? If we respect your courts, we expect you to respect our courts.”

'I have said if you have substantive evidence on Saeed give it to me before I leave and I will ensure he is arrested by the time I land.. .But if I arrest on hearsay, it will not stand before court,' he said.