* No trail on whereabouts of suspects
* Logistical support
* Largely fruitless talks since Mumbai attacks
(Recasts with search for suspects)
By Zeeshan Haider and Augustine Anthony
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Pakistani security agencies have made no progress in their pursuit of 20 people suspected of involvement in the 2008 attack on India's commercial capital Mumbai which killed 166 people, a senior security official said on Monday.
Pakistan has acknowledged that the attack was plotted and partly launched from its soil, and has put on trial seven suspects linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group, which was blamed for the attacks.
But India says it is not satisfied with the pace of the Pakistani investigation and has demanded more people be put on trial for the attack, including the founder of the LeT, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed.
Pakistani newspaper the Express Tribune in its online edition said the counter-terrorism wing of a Pakistani federal agency has identified the 20 suspects as mostly LeT affiliates.
"The new suspects had allegedly provided logistical and monetary support for the Mumbai attack," the newspaper said quoting a "classified report", two years after the attack.
A senior Pakistani security official said the suspects had been placed on Pakistan's most wanted terrorists list about a year ago and a judge had issued permanent arrest warrants.
"We believe they are hiding inside Pakistan. It's a huge country and so many thousands of proclaimed offenders are there. It's a continuous process. There are over 1,000 police stations. We circulate this information to all of them," he told Reuters.
"You are aware of Pakistan's mountainous areas. People can hide there indefinitely."
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The newspaper said the suspects included the alleged captain of two boats used in the attack as well as their 10 crew members, six financiers of the LeT and three others.
Relations between India and Pakistan deteriorated sharply following the attack, but tension has eased in recent months.
The United States wants ties between the two countries to improve so that Pakistan can focus more closely on fighting Afghan militants who cross its border to attack U.S.-led NATO troops in Afghanistan.
"We want the perpetrators to be punished through legal means, and our interior ministry has sought more information from India," said Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday.
Nine attackers were killed in gun battles with Indian security forces during the attack on Mumbai while the tenth, Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, sentenced to death by an Indian court.
The prosecution of the seven accused in Pakistan has stalled because officials are demanding that Kasab be allowed to testify in Pakistan, which New Delhi has refused.
The seven suspects on trial included Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a LeT commander, who has been identified as a key person in the Mumbai attack by David Coleman Headley, an American who pleaded guilty in a U.S. court in March to charges that he scouted targets for LeT for the assault.
LeT was nurtured by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency to fight India in Kashmir in the 1990s. Pakistan officially banned the group in 2002.
(Writing by Augustine Anthony, Editing by Michael Georgy)
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