Mumbai Attack Suspects

Dec 11 (Reuters) - India's foreign minister said on Thursday that New Delhi has asked Pakistan to hand over 40 people it blames for the Mumbai attacks and others in the past.

While police say there is plenty of evidence the Mumbai attackers came from Pakistan, they have arrested Indians they suspect of playing a part.

Here are some facts about those India has in custody now:

MOHAMED AJMAL KASAB: For India, the 21-year-old is the smoking gun proving a Pakistani hand in the attacks. Kasab is the only survivor of the 10 gunmen who attacked Mumbai sites last month, and the prime source for Indian investigators.

Captured wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the Versace designer label outside the main train station in Mumbai, the baby-faced gunman, and an accomplice who was shot dead, had fired AK-47s inside and killed around 50 people.

He told investigators he comes from Faridkot in Pakistan's Punjab region. Recruited by the Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group, he was given a year of commando training in Pakistan by a former Pakistani military officer, he told interrogators.

LeT is on U.S. and Indian terrorist lists, and Kasab told police the gunmen took orders by phone from two LeT operations chiefs. One, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, was designated a terrorist by the United States in May. India says the other, Yusuf Muzammil, is the head of LeT's anti-India operations.

Kasab's surname is the Urdu word for butcher, which police say was his father's profession. They say it is not clear whether it is his real name.

TAUSIF RAHMAN: Police arrested the clerk from the eastern Indian city of Kolkata after tracing back to him the mobile phone cards used by the attackers. Rehman used a dead relative's identity documents to acquire the 22 mobile phone cards, which he later sold to Mukhtar Ahmed. He has been charged with conspiracy and forgery. He was arrested after Kasab, and police say he helped them catch Ahmed, who was in New Delhi.