Pakistan envoy meets Menon, seeks translation of Mumbai attack evidence

August 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The US will ask Pakistan to bring all perpetrators of the 26/11 terror attack, including Hafiz Saeed, to justice, US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer said here Wednesday, adding that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials will testify in the trial of the Mumbai accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab this week.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hours before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lands in Mumbai to begin her five-day India visit, US ambassador-designate to India Timothy J. Roemer met Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon here Friday and discussed the agenda for talks.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistani High Commissioner Shahid Malik Tuesday met Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon here to decide on the dates for the proposed meeting of the foreign secretaries of the two countries. Even though there was no official word about the meeting, informed sources the foreign secretary's meeting may take place next week.

June 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - U.S. Under Secretary of State William Burns on Wednesday met External Affairs Minister S.M.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India has expressed disappointment over the release of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafeez Saeed to Pakistani envoy in New Delhi, Shahid Malik, who met Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon today. While assuring India on looking into the legal aspects of Saeed's release, the Pakistani envoy reportedly remained non-committal and has made no promises about the Pakistan Government filing a review petition challenging High Court order releasing the LeT chief.

May 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Wednesday handed over to Pakistan a new dossier of evidence on the Mumbai terrorist attack, an official statement said. 'MEA (Ministry of External Affairs) have today handed over to the Pakistani High Commission additional information and details relating to the Mumbai terror attack sought by Pakistan,' it said.

February 9th, 2009 ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI - The Mumbai terror attacks did not figure in the discussions between visiting US special envoy Richard Holbrooke and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, even as New Delhi asked Islamabad for a direct response on its terror dossier. 'In the interactions we had, Mumbai did not surface at all,' Qureshi replied when asked at a press conference in Islamabad whether the Mumbai mayhem that India has blamed on elements operating from this country figured in his discussions with Holbrooke.

February 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With Islamabad dithering in its response to the 26/11 terror dossier, India has again asked Pakistan to directly convey its response on the Mumbai carnage instead of airing its views through the media or other fora. 'The fact is that we have Pakistan saying various things at various times, various forms and to various audiences,' Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told journalists on his return from Dhaka late Monday.

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 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Islamabad has not 'rejected' the evidence handed over by New Delhi, which points to the involvement of elements across the border in the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan's envoy here said Tuesday. 'There is no question of rejection of material that the Indian government has given us,' Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik told reporters here on the sidelines of a conference of Asia Africa Rural Development Organisation.

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 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Monday handed over to Pakistan evidence linking Pakistan-based militants to the Mumbai carnage and intensified international pressure on Islamabad to act against terror outfits in that country. 'We have today given evidence to Pakistan of links between elements in Pakistan and the terrorists who attacked Mumbai,' External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters here Monday morning.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Monday handed over to Pakistan the evidence linking Pakistan-based militants to the Mumbai carnage and ratcheted up international pressure on Islamabad to eliminate terror infrastructure. 'We have today given evidence to Pakistan of links between elements in Pakistan and the terrorists who attacked Mumbai,' External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters here Monday morning.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India is no longer interested in words or mechanisms but wants 'actual action' from Pakistan, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said here Monday. Menon, who described the Mumbai terror strike as amounting to a 'commando attack', told a press conference: 'We are no longer interested in words, in mechanisms; we want actual actions against perpetrators.' 'We don't think there is any such thing as a non-state actor,' Menon said categorically, in a reference to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari labelling the terrorists as non-state actors.

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.