No accusation against Pakistan without proof: Mulford

October 11th, 2009 MUMBAI - India is not responsible for terrorist activities in Pakistan's Balochistan province, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared Sunday. Addressing a press conference here, he said Pakistani allegations to this effect were totally wrong.

September 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There was "zero proof" of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed's alleged involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan's former national security adviser Mahmud Ali Durrani said here Saturday. "There is zero proof of Hafiz Saeed's involvement," Durrani told reporters in reply to a query.

September 5th, 2009 BANGALORE - External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Saturday said that Pakistan had been given enough proof to prosecute Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) leaders for masterminding the Mumbai terror attacks.

August 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - India asserted Saturday it had provided enough evidence to Pakistan to prosecute Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, and it was now for Islamabad to proceed against him. The home ministry has also prepared a fresh dossier on the attack, which will be given to Pakistan soon.

July 23rd, 2009 PHUKET - Pakistan will take action against the Lashkar-e-Taiba if proof was found of its involvement in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said here Thursday. "We will take action against LeT if any proof is found," Qureshi told reporters when asked what action Pakistan planned to take against the perpetrators of the Nov 26 Mumbai carnage.

April 1st, 2009 LONDON - Declaring Pakistan as the 'epicentre' of world terrorism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has urged the world's most powerful countries to rid both Pakistan and Afghanistan of terrorism. 'We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan.

February 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - US Ambassador to India David Mulford Friday said the US will adopt a 'watch and help' policy to ensure that Pakistan completes investigations into the Mumbai attack links and prosecutes the accused. Terming Pakistan's admission that part of the Mumbai conspiracy was hatched on its soil as 'a very important first step', the ambassador said: 'Obviously, it's the beginning of a process.

February 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Terming Pakistan's admission that part of the Mumbai attack conspiracy was hatched on its soil as 'a very important first step', US Ambassador to India David Mulford Friday said the US will adopt a 'watch and help' policy. 'We think this is the beginning of a process.

January 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday questioned the Manmohan Singh government's silence on the US and Britain absolving Islamabad of involvement in the Mumbai carnage and also accused it of a 'u-turn' by accepting that the fugitives from Indian law can be tried in Pakistan. Alluding to recent remarks by visiting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and US ambassador David Mulford, the main opposition party said these assertions were 'a dazzling blow to the Indian government's stand' about the complicity of Pakistan's state agencies in the Nov 26 Mumbai carnage.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The US Friday welcomed the recent elections in Jammu and Kashmir saying that the turnout of voters in large numbers showed 'a return to normalcy with peace and the assurance of increased security'. 'I was especially impressed by the election process and its outcome in Jammu and Kashmir.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the Mumbai attack must have had the support of official agencies in Pakistan, the US Friday said it can't 'make accusations without proof' but underlined that it would 'press ahead' to bring the perpetrators of the carnage to justice. 'I don't want to make accusations without proof,' US Ambassador David Mulford told reporters here when asked whether he suspected the involvement of Pakistan's official agencies in the Nov 26 Mumbai carnage.

January 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after Pakistan accepted the nationality of the lone Mumbai attacker in Indian custody, US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Richard Boucher stepped up pressure on Islamabad, saying that the US was determined to find out the truth behind the Mumbai carnage. 'The US is determined to find out who carried out the Mumbai attacks,' Boucher, who arrived here from a visit to Islamabad, told reporters after meeting Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon.

January 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With Islamabad rejecting the evidence linking Pakistani nationals with the Mumbai carnage, India will seek the support of the US in stepping up pressure on Pakistan when Richard Boucher, the Bush administration's key points person for South Asia, holds talks with Indian officials here Thursday. Boucher will meet External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Foreign Secretary Shivhsankar Menon and discuss with them the need to sustain international pressure on Islamabad in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, blamed by India on the Pakistan-based elements.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The US Monday said it has consistently supported India over bringing the attackers of Mumbai to justice and underlined that it will pursue to its logical conclusion the investigations into the terror strike, which also killed six Americans. 'The US will pursue the matter to its logical conclusion,' US ambassador to India David Mulford told reporters here when asked about Washington's response to the evidence New Delhi has collected that links Pakistan-based elements to the Nov 26 attacks.

January 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - US ambassador David Mulford met Home Minister P. Chidambaram Saturday, his second meeting in as many weeks, to discuss the prevailing security situation and the body of evidence collected by Indian intelligence agencies following the terror attacks in Mumbai.