India on Saturday said an embarrassing blunder in the country's "most wanted fugitives list" given to Pakistan was a "wake up" call to security agencies to become more professional. Home Minister P. Chidambaram's statement came after India withdrew a list of "most-wanted" fugitives allegedly being sheltered in Pakistan after the government discovered that at least two were in India one of them in prison.
Chidambaram also said the mistake does not damage government's credibility and it will "not change the dynamics" of the relationship between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, or the status of talks between them. He rejected suggestions that the gaffe may incite Pakistan to dismiss India's repeated requests to hand over militant suspects New Delhi believes are in that country.
"I don't think it damages credibility. I think it is a wake up call for the agencies to become more professional," he told Indian television network CNN-IBN. India's top police agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation, has now taken down the list from its website pending revision.
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