U.S. hopes Pakistan brings Mumbai attacks perpetrators to justice: Clinton

NEW DELHI, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Calling terrorism a threat to the whole world, visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday said that the United States hopes that Pakistan will bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks to justice.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) meets with Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh as she visits the ITC Green Center in Gurgaon, India, July 19, 2009.(Xinhua/Stringer)

"We are watching and expecting that justice is done in the Mumbai attacks case and those behind it face the reckoning," Clinton said at a function in Gurgaon, some 30 km from the Indian national capital where she arrived this afternoon.

The Mumbai terror attacks last November claimed the lives of over 170 people, including foreign nationals.

India has been insisting that Pakistan should book those, the members of the banned Lashker-e-Toiba, responsible for the act after Islamabad admitted that part of the conspiracy to attack the Indian financial capital was hatched on its soil.