LAHORE: Pakistan will publish findings of its investigation into November's militant attacks in Mumbai early next week, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday.
Gilani also said newly appointed U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke would be visiting Pakistan on Monday.
Relations between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have been strained since militants killed 179 people in Mumbai.
"We will publish a report ... by Monday or Tuesday on the information given in their dossier," Gilani told reporters in Lahore.
India said the dossier contained the confession of a surviving attacker, satellite phone intercepts between the attackers and their handlers in Pakistan, and a list of Pakistani-made weapons used by the militants.
Gilani, announcing that Holbrooke would be visiting on Monday, said there was confusion over the envoy's mandate.
Pakistan had expected the United States to appoint an envoy for South Asia as a whole, including India and the divided Kashmir region, the core dispute between India and Pakistan.
But India objects to any outside effort to get involved in Kashmir, which both Pakistan and India claim in full but rule in part.
"There is still confusion (over) whether he is in charge of the region or he is only confined to Afghanistan and Pakistan," Gilani said, adding terrorism was a regional problem and should be dealt with regionally.
"We welcome Richard Holbrooke for special envoy to Pakistan, Afghanistan and for the region ... and we will discuss with him our regional problems related to terrorism and extremism."
Holbrooke, a foreign policy veteran appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama last month, is also due to visit Afghanistan and India on what a U.S. State Department spokesman said this week would be "an orientation trip".
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