Israeli travel advisory says India under terror threat

September 20th, 2009 SYDNEY - The premier of Australian state of Victoria John Brumby has cancelled his planned trip to Mumbai during his coming visit to India over fears of terrorism, media reports said Sunday. The premier's office released a statement Sunday that Brumby would spend more time in Delhi and not go ahead with the earlier planned Sep 23-24 trip to Mumbai.

September 18th, 2009 TEL AVIV - Israel's National Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Bureau has issued a terror warning for India, saying a Pakistani terror group, having close links with Al-Qaeda, is planning to carry out series of strikes across the country. "A Pakistani terror organization affiliated with al-Qaida and responsible for the attacks in Mumbai last year is planning to carry out a string of attacks throughout the Indian subcontinent," the notice issued by the bureau stated.

September 17th, 2009 JERUSALEM - Israel's Counter Terrorism Bureau warned Thursday night that the group of militants responsible for the Nov 26, 2008 attacks in Mumbai was planning to carry out more attacks across India, especially sites with a large concentration of Western and Israeli tourists. A statement issued by the bureau said the threat was "concrete and very high".

September 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has once again urged India to share evidence regarding its claims that certain Pakistani terror groups are planning to carry out attacks across India once again. "We have repeatedly requested the Indian government to share with us whatever information it has in this regard, The Daily Times quoted a Foreign Office spokesman, as saying.

September 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States has issued a travel advisory to its citizens, warning them about probable terror strikes in India during the forthcoming festive season. In a statement issued by the US State Department, Americans have been advised to be cautious and to maintain a low profile during their travel to India during this period which includes festivals like Dusshera, Eid and Diwali.

August 16th, 2009 LAHORE - Threat from India still looms large over Pakistan, well known Pakistani journalist and Chairman Nazria Pakistan Trust Majid Nizami has said. Addressing the seventh ideological training workshop of teachers organised by Nazria Pakistan Trust, Nizami criticised President Asif Ali Zardari for saying that India no longer remained a threat for Pakistan.

August 12th, 2009 TORONTO - In a rather sweeping advisory to its citizens travelling in India, the Canadian foreign office says terror attacks, bomb blasts and violence can happen at any place, at any time in the country. According to it, bombings occur throughout India and it is not safe for foreign travellers as violence can happen any time.

July 31st, 2009 NEW YORK - Indian-American businessman and political activist Andy Shenoy has been appointed to the Tourism Advisory Board of New York's Empire State Development Corporation and says "the world, especially India" loves the city. Shenoy, who was appointed by New York Governor David Patterson, said: "It is indeed an honour to serve on the advisory board at such a critical time." "New York State is one of the top travel destinations for tourists from around the world.

July 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - US Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke has said India, Pakistan and the United States face a common enemy, and that a joint effort is needed to crush the threat facing the region. Addressing a press conference here, Holbrooke said: "India, Pakistan and the US are surrounded by a common enemy.

July 14th, 2009 CAIRO - External Affairs Minister S.M Krishna has said that New Delhi would like a visible response from Islamabad, which should have commitment to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks. Speaking at a press conference on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Sharm-al Shaikh here last night, Krishna said that India wants an assurance from Pakistan that acts of terrorism engineered from Pakistan soil will not be repeated.

July 7th, 2009 VIRGINIA - The threat perception on vital installations in three coastal states Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa has been increased manifold following intelligence reports of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) channelising huge amounts of money from its Gulf-based networks for terror strikes against the country. According to a report in the Terrorism Monitor, a periodical published by the Virginia based Jamestown Foundation, intelligence authorities have revealed that the LeT's marine wing is planning a repeat of the 26/11 Mumbai attack, and is on the look out for an incursion into India via the western sea-coast.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari says targeting the Taliban rather than India does not rankle his army because the two nuclear armed countries no longer pose threats to each others territories. "It rankles the small mind," he told the Daily Telegraph in an interview published Monday.

June 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan leadership seems to lack consensus when it comes to talking about the country's relations with India, with the Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira saying that President Asif Ali Zardari's statement that India was no more a threat for Pakistan, was blown out of context. Addressing a joint press conference with the ISPR spokesman, Major General Athar Abbas here, Kaira asserted that Zardari's statement was reported out of context, and what he really meant was that there was 'no immediate threat of war'.

June 24th, 2009 BRUSSELS - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that India is no longer a military threat to Pakistan, rather it is the Taliban which is threatening peace in the region as well as in the whole world. Talking to a private television channel ahead of the first summit between the European Union (EU) and Pakistan here, Zardari said both India and Pakistan do not have any ill-feelings against each other, and both the countries have good intentions.

April 23rd, 2009 LAHORE - The United States is finding convincing Pakistan that the internal threat posed by extremism is a bigger threat to it than India, a "tough sell". Delivering a lecture at the Harvard University, Central Command chief General David Petraeus said Islamabad must change its attitude towards New Delhi.