ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan yesterday offered to set up a joint inquiry into last week's terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai and said it would cooperate with India as it investigates the three-day siege of the country's financial capital.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi extended the offer in a statement broadcast on national television, as pressure mounted from both India and the United States for cooperation in unraveling the attack.

"Both countries will benefit from bilateral engagement. This is not the time for finger-pointing. Terrorism is a major challenge. It is a common enemy," Mr. Qureshi said.

The attacks by a band of 10 gunmen killed 174 people and injured nearly 300.

Mr. Qureshi delivered his remarks as members of Pakistan's National Assembly held a special session in Islamabad, the capital, to discuss the country's response to the Mumbai assaults. Indian officials have pinned responsibility for the attacks on Pakistan-based elements of Lashkar-i-Taiba, a militant group linked to several prior terror attacks in India. The sole gunman to be taken alive, they say, has admitted that Lashkar was behind the terrorists' Mumbai rampage.

Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's minister of information, said the country's top intelligence official, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, would brief a parliamentary committee meeting about possible steps Pakistan might take amid rising tension between the two countries.

"We must try to dampen down the discourse of conflict and work for peace in the region," Ms. Rehman said.

The calls from Pakistan for restraint and cooperation followed a demand by India that Pakistan turn over 20 people believed to be linked to terrorist acts across the border, including a series of bomb blasts that killed more than 250 people in Mumbai in 1993. Topping the list are Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian-born mafia figure suspected of financing and planning the 1993 blasts, and Masood Azhar, leader of a Pakistan-based group linked to the dramatic hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight in Afghanistan in 1999.

A Pakistani Foreign Ministry official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities, confirmed that his office had received the wanted list and that the ministry was considering its response. He said many of the names have long been in demand by India.

Known as the "Gold Man" or "Don Dawood," Mr. Ibrahim, previously a Mumbai-based crime kingpin, has led India's most-wanted list for 15 years. He is considered a leading financier for Lashkar and other terror groups. Born in the Indian state of Maharashtra, the 53-year-old Mr. Ibrahim is the son of a policeman, but turned to organized crime in his teens.

International intelligence agencies have said he is probably hiding in Pakistan, where he allegedly holds stakes in a large number of properties and businesses in the southern city of Karachi and in Islamabad. In 2003, the United States designated Mr. Ibrahim a global terrorist, tying him to a vast arms and drug-running network.