ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said today it would “probably” put on trial next week the five accused of involvement in last year’s deadly terror attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai. Relations between the two nuclear-armed rivals worsened after the siege in India’s financial capital that New Delhi blamed on the Lashkar-e-Taiba rebel group based in Pakistan. “The trial of the five accused, who have been arrested, is probably going to start next week,” interior minister Rehman Malik told reporters in Islamabad after meeting Indian Deputy High Commissioner (Ambassador) Manpreet Vohra. “We are pretty sure that based on the evidence which our investigators have collected, the culprits will be punished,” he said. Malik said the trial against the five accused including the alleged mastermind Zakiduddin Lakhvi would be “transparent”. “Investigation (on our side) is almost complete and we have collected all material evidence,” he said. The minister rejected India’s criticism that Pakistan was not serious in carrying out investigations. “We were not only serious but very serious in our investigations,” he said.