New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) Amid speculation about the scope of the joint anti-terror mechanism with Pakistan, India Wednesday clarified that it would deal with "all forms of terrorism".

"There is no doubt in our minds as to what constitutes terrorism and it is clear that the group is mandated to address all forms of terrorism," external affairs ministry spokesperson Navtej Sarna said in a statement.

"The anti-terrorism institutional mechanism agreed to between India and Pakistan in Havana is clearly mandated by the Sep 16 joint statement to identify and implement counter-terrorism initiatives and investigations."

Early this week, Pakistan had said the proposed mechanism was not an arrangement to hand over people wanted by either side. Some of those wanted by India have a "different" status in Pakistan by virtue of their association with the "freedom struggle" in Jammu and Kashmir.

"The institutional mechanism does not talk about handing over people by either side or exchanging lists of wanted persons," Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam had said.

The mechanism was to help prevent terrorism in both countries. Islamabad and New Delhi exchanged wanted persons' lists in a different context, when the home secretaries of the two countries met under the composite dialogue process, she said.

"Some of these people, for instance, people who had been here and had been associated with the freedom struggle, have a different status."

Nearly two weeks back, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf met on the sidelines of the 14th Non-Aligned Movement summit in Havana and agreed to resume the foreign secretary-level talks, suspended after the July 11 terror attacks in Mumbai that killed nearly 200 people.

The two leaders, meeting for the first time after the Mumbai bombings, also agreed to put in place "an India-Pakistan anti-terrorism institutional mechanism to identify and implement anti-terrorism initiatives and investigations".

India had blamed terrorists operating from Pakistan to be responsible for the Mumbai killings but Islamabad denied any involvement.