Chidambaram was asked that while he says that the UPA government has decided not to engage in dialogue with Pakistan until the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks are brought to justice, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets Pakistani leader in Sharm-el-Sheikh, and reaches out to Pakistan with a hand of friendship in Srinagar.
This comes after the US Secretary of State had signed the surrender warrant authorizing Rana's extradition to Indian authorities on February 11. Rana's legal counsel subsequently filed an emergency stay motion seeking to challenge that order.
Rana has been lodged in the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Los Angeles for over 10 years since he was convicted of the 2008 terror attacks by a US court.