He said that had there been interaction between Pakistan and India and regular sharing of information, the 26/11 attack could have been prevented. He denied any role of “state actor” (Pakistan) in the incident.

Earlier on Friday Rehman had reportedly made a controversial statement to the print media comparing the demolition of Babri Masjid with the terror attack, which he subsequently denied on next day in an interview to an Indian TV channel saying that he was “misquoted.”

'So it is not a state sponsored drama, state sponsored action. It is action by non-state actors. Triangular nexus between (David Colman Headley), (Ilyas) Kashmiri, the enemy of Pakistan, a Major who deserted the Pakistan Army, having joined LeT and of course three Indians,' he said delivering a lecture at Observer Research Foundation here on Sunday.

He said Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley had conspired with al Qaeda terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri, a retired major of Pakistan Army and three Indian terrorists — Abu Jundal, Jabbiullah and Fahim Ansari — and roamed freely and plotted India's worst terror attack.

He alleged Abu Jundal (an Indian) was a criminal who 'worked as a source for (an) elite agency of India.'

Jundal, whose real name is Syed Zabiuddin Ansari, is said to have been present at the Karachi-based 'control room' from where the horrific Mumbai attack was overseen.

Jundal was deported from Saudi Arabia and arrested in Delhi in June.

'If you put things together, there are three guys, one coming from the US, and he has that money, he has got credit cards, he has moved all over, he had created franchise, he had created a social circle. All these should have come to the attention of some agencies, Malik said.

He further elaborated 'Now the agencies failed. Both here and Pakistan. So, we have failed. Why? Because, there was no interaction between Pakistan and India.'

He said Pakistan was awaiting 'substantial evidence' from New Delhi to act against Lashkar-e-Taiba leader and Mumbai-terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed.

He alleged “insufficient evidences” given by India on Hafiz Saeed as a result he was released by court order. India relied on a statement of Ajmal Kasab, the Pakistani terrorist arrested in Mumbai and hanged last month.

India had asked for deportation of Hafiz Saeed.

However, on Kasab’s hanging, Malik said : “we fully respect the decision of your court.”

Malik said a proposed visit by Pakistan's judicial commission to India to cross-examine 26/11 witnesses would help expedite the conviction of the seven arrested in Pakistan in connection with the Mumbai attack.

He said there was 'irrefutable evidence' against them in the Pakistani court.

Malik said India can set the terms for the visit of the second judicial commission. 'Once the procedure ends, we will be able to get conviction.'

In the interactive session that followed Malik denied Pakistan was responsible for the infiltration of Kashmir militants from his country to Jammu and Kashmir.

He said he had urged Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj to visit Pakistan to see there was 'no mass migration' of Hindus from the country on account of “forced conversion” or “torture”.

He complained that both Pakistan and Afghanistan were facing the onslaught of terrorism. “If Afghanistan and Pakistan were destabilized, it would affect India also.”

He therefore suggested the need for working together to counter terrorism.

“Splinter groups are fighting. Who is financing them? We got some information from your National Security Advisor,” Malik said.

On allowing Indian goods to pass through Pakistan to Afghanistan, he said that his country allowed Afghan good to pass through Pakistan to India, but drug smuggling started. “We need to work with caution,” he said.

Malik finally mooted the idea of an India-Pakistan Friendship Society and urged for more people-to-people contact. He said that peace process between India and Pakistan should be above politics.

He prayed at the shrine of the 14th century Sufi saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya.