Manmohan Singh denies Balochistan dossier from Pakistan

July 30th, 2009 Indo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - Pakistan had provided the US with no evidence of India's alleged involvement in Balochistan though the issue did come up, US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke said after his visit to Islamabad. "I would be misleading if I said it didn't come up, but the narrow answer to your question is no," he said Wednesday when asked whether Pakistani leaders had given him any credible evidence of India's alleged involvement in Balochistan.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Friday dispelled reports that Pakistan has given any dossier to India on Balochistan.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has reiterated in Lok Sabha that India will not hold any talks with Pakistan unless the neighbouring country stops allowing its territory to be used by anti-India terror outfits.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The BJP Wednesday launched a frontal assault on the government for compromising on India's stated position on Pakistan in the Sharm-el-Sheikh joint statement and said the waters of the seven seas will not be able to wash the shame brought on the country through this flawed initiative. "The distinction between the aggressor and the victim has been completely obliterated, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha, also a former foreign minister, said while alluding to a line in the joint statement that says both countries recognise terrorism as the chief threat.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistan has admitted for the first time that its nationals carried out a terrorist attack in India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday. "It is the first that they have admitted that their nationals in a terrorist organisation based in Pakistan carried out a ghastly attack in India," Manmohan Singh said in his reply to the debate in Lok Sabha on the India-Pakistan joint statement issued in Egypt.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Bhrthruhari Mehtab alleged in the Lok Sabha on Monday, that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had committed a grave blunder by allowing the mention of Balochistan and the delinking terrorism from the dialogue in the joint statement issued after talks with his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani in Egypt earlier this month. Raising the issue during Zero Hour Mehtab said Singh should have shown prudence while having the statement drafted.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Aiming to stem the controversy over the inclusion of Balochistan in the India-Pakistan joint statement, Home Minister P. Chidambaram has asserted that New Delhi has "nothing to do with Pakistan's internal affairs".

July 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India has taken "half a step" of starting a "limited dialogue" with Pakistan at the foreign secretary-level, but has made it clear that the future and form of dialogue will depend upon Islamabad's action against terror. Official sources also vehemently denied a Pakistani media report, which claimed that Islamabad had given to New Delhi a "dossier" about India's involvement in Balochistan during talks at Sharm-el-Sheikh last week.

July 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistan did not give any dossier on Balochistan to India as news reports appearing in Pakistani media claimed. The one-and-half page document handed over by Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir to his Indian counterpart at Sharm Al Sheikh was report on action taken by Islamabad against the proclaimed offenders behind the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, according to high-level sources in the Foreign Ministry.

July 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik Friday said India was interfering in Balochistan and India-run terror camps in Afghanistan were training youth from Balochistan, Online news agency reported. Malik made the comments while speaking on the Balochistan issue in the Senate, the upper house of Pakistan parliament.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The India-Pakistan joint statement issued in Egypt was a "diplomatic paper" not a legal document, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said Thursday, reiterating that what mattered was "not the perception of words on paper" but the conduct of Islamabad in preventing future acts of terror. It is a diplomatic paper that is released to the press -- different from legal papers.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharaitya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday questioned the inclusion of Balochistan in the India-Pakistan joint statement signed in Egypt last week and said that it will give legitimacy to Pakistan to hold India responsible for problems in the province. "Why did you (the government) include Balochistan in the joint declaration? On what basis, for what objectives, for what concern unless to give some kind of expression that India is also behind some kind of trouble in Balochistan," asked BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad.

July 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan says it has handed over to India evidence of the involvement of its external spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in terrorist activities in this country, including the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore and on a police academy on the outskirts of the city earlier this year. Quoting sources, Dawn said Wednesday a dossier containing proof of Indias involvement in subversive activities in Pakistan was handed over by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh during their meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh last week.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - "Our conduct is an open book," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told Pakistani Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani when he brought up the issue of India being "active" in the restive Balochistan area. During the hour-long talks between the two leaders in Sharm-el-Sheikh Thursday, Manmohan Singh discussed the issue of terrorist acts "aided, abetted and inspired from Pakistan".

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday urged Pakistan to take concrete steps to fight terrorism and bring perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks to justice. "We expect Pakistan to bring all the culprits to justice.