ISI has given feedback to India on Mumbai attacks: Gilani

June 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said that his country would offer India an "olive branch" to resume bilateral composite dialogue. Addressing students and faculty members of the army's Command and Staff College in Quetta, Gilani said: "Pakistan and India faced common problems and it was in the interest of the whole region for the two nuclear powers to resume the dialogue which had stopped after last year's Mumbai attacks." Gilani spoke on the need for resumption of composite dialogue with India as well as against Taliban's attempts to run a parallel government in Pakistan.

April 19th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the country is ready with its own anti-terrorism strategy which it would be sharing with the United States soon. "Our policy is ready, and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi would visit the US in the first week of May to share this policy with the American administration," The Daily quoted Gilani, as saying.

February 17th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Wednesday that his government was considering sending a Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team to India for the Mumbai attacks probe, Geo TV reported. The channel quoted Gilani as saying that the FIA team has sought permission from the government for undertaking a visit to India.

February 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The resolution of the Kashmir dispute holds the key to India-Pakistan ties and the two countries should resume their composite dialogue process that has been halted by the Mumbai carnage, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said. He also said that Pakistan's probe into the Mumbai attacks would be made public after the law ministry has given its response.

January 24th, 2009 MULTAN - Pakistan's Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said Sunday that his government would take the world into confidence over the Mumbai attacks probe, Geo TV reported. Addressing a gathering here, Gilani said his government would not allow the use of its territory for terrorist acts and that war was no solution to the terrorism issue.

January 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has thanked his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh for his New Year greetings and reiterated Islamabad's desire for friendly sub-continental ties. 'Excellency, I would like to thank you and Mrs Manmohan Singh for the greeting card and your kind wishes on the eve of New Year,' Gilani said in his reply to a greeting card from Manmohan Singh.

January 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has extended by two months the house arrest of Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the founder chief of banned terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) which is blamed by India for the Mumbai terror attacks. Saeed was detained in December after the United Nations declared Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a frontal organisation of the LeT, as a terrorist group.

January 10th, 2009 LALGOLA - India has not yet received any official communication from Pakistan on a dossier over the Mumbai terrorist attack, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Sunday. 'We've not yet received any official communication from Pakistan till Saturday.

January 9th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday attributed the Mumbai carnage to a 'big intelligence failure' on India's part and said his government was ready for joint intelligence operations to prevent such incidents in future. 'Though it's their internal matter, it was a big intelligence failure and now we'll have to defend two countries,' Gilani said while commenting on the Mumbai attacks.

January 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's ISI agency has 'given its feedback' to India about the Mumbai attacks, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said but New Delhi Saturday maintained it had not received any response on the Mumbai terrorist attack dossier it handed over six days ago. Gilani's remarks Friday came shortly before US vice-president-elect Joe Biden arrived in Islamabad for talks with the Pakistani leadership on the tensions with India in the wake of the carnage in Mumbai, Aaj TV reported.

January 8th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Terming the situation on the Pakistan-India border as 'fragile' in the wake of the Mumbai terror strikes, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday said this country wants to resolve all issues through dialogue and does not want any escalation in tension. Talking to the media after addressing a seminar here, the prime minister said the situation on the 'eastern border has once again turned fragile'.

January 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called on President Asif Ali Zardari here Tuesday, a day after India handed over evidence of the involvement of this country in the Mumbai terror attacks. 'Both leaders discussed recent political developments, India-Pakistan tension and steps taken by Pakistan to de-escalate the situation, situation in tribal areas and others matters of national and regional interests,' Geo TV reported.

December 26th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday said that Pakistan doesn't want war with India and that 'we will only react' if a conflict is imposed on us. 'We don't want to have aggression with our neighbours.

December 24th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - More people were killed in the terror attack on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's convoy on her return home from exile last October than were killed in the Mumbai carnage, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Thursday. 'More Pakistanis died in Karachi than all those who died in Mumbai,' Gilani told reporters in Lahore, adding: 'We, too, are victims of terrorism.' The prime minister also termed the Karachi strike as 'more horrific' than the Mumbai attacks.

December 24th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani declared Thursday that 'there is absolutely no question of war' with India and said Islamabad sought 'excellent relations' with its neighbour. 'There is no question of war.