NEW DELHI - FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy's top diplomatic aide on Saturday compared the Mumbai attacks to 9/11 and pressed on India's arch-foe Pakistan for 'total cooperation' to bring the guilty to book.

The 'tragedy of Mumbai must be compared with 9/11. It was a challenge to a great democracy and values of a great democracy,' Jean-David Levitte told journalists in New Delhi.

India says 10 militants from the Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit led the November 26-29 siege in the country's financial hub and film capital which left 174 people including nine of the gunmen killed. The lone surviving attacker is in Indian custody.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that 'Pakistan should act against the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and other terrorist groups and their sponsors operating from that country in its own interest'.

Mr Levitte echoed the refrain.

'We received all evidence presented by the government of India ... We consider that whatever has been given to us is totally credible. We have absolutely no doubt on what has been given to us,' he said.

'What we want from Pakistan is full cooperation, total cooperation...

'What matters at the end of the ...day, is that whoever is guilty, should be presented before a court and punished. Justice must be delivered and those who committed these acts and those who cooperated must be punished in the most severe way.' -- AFP