Pakistan has not rejected India’s evidence on terrorism: Envoy

September 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ahead of his meeting with Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said that Pakistan has a vested interest in blocking the inquiry into the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and is safeguarding terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed.

September 5th, 2009 MULTAN - The Government of Pakistan on Saturday claimed that the evidence provided by Government of India regarding the 26/11 Mumbai attacks probe is insufficient and further movement will depend upon India's response. "India's proof is not enough to carry the 26/11 probe.

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 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Warning of the "danger of the collapse of Pakistan" to the region, the European Union (EU) plans to expand cooperation with India in countering terrorism, with the EU's counter-terror coordinator expected in New Delhi soon. "Terrorism is a matter of great concern.

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.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik met Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and urged India to provide English translation of the Mumbai terror strike evidence Wednesday, a day after the release of Hafiz Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group that is accused of masterminding the Nov 26 carnage. "India conveyed its disappointment at the release of Saeed," Menon told reporters after the meeting.

April 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik has, during an in-camera session of the Senate, the upper house of parliament, presented what he termed evidence of the involvement of India, Afghanistan and Russia in terrorist activities in Pakistan, a media report Friday said. 'It is the first time Pakistan has blamed these countries and cited evidence which, it is believed, will be shared with the international community, particularly the United States, which has expressed concern over growing militancy in the country,' Dawn said.

April 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke arrived in New Delhi late last night and is expected to brief the Indian leadership about his recent visit to Pakistan and President Obama's new strategy on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Holbrooke is being accompanied by the Chairman of the U.S.

March 22nd, 2009 PANAJI - Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik Saturday said that his government is examining India's response to the 26/11 terror attack questions. 'Pakistan's interior ministry is in the process of examining India's response to the questionnaire,' Malik said at a function organised by the Goa non-resident Indians commissionerate here.

February 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Monday rejected the Indian allegations of its links with the Nov 26 Mumbai terror strike but said it will take the probe into the attack to its logical conclusion. 'Pakistan will try its best to take the Mumbai attack probe to its fruition, but at this stage the Indian allegations are not proving helpful,' The News quoted a foreign office spokesman as saying.

February 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former president Pervez Musharraf has said that his government had not inked any agreement with the US over drone attacks on Pakistan, Online reported. Musharraf said: 'Increase in terrorism and extremism is influencing people towards Al-Qaeda and Talibanisation.

February 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and the US will evolve a joint strategy to tackle terrorism and extremism in the region, the state-run APP news agency reported Wednesday. US President Barack Obama telephoned his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday and assured him that Washington would continue to provide assistance to Pakistan for the development of its social and economic sectors.

January 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Terming it an opportunity to improve stability in the region, Pakistan Friday welcomed the appointment of Richard Holbrooke as the special US envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. 'Pakistan welcomes the appointment of ambassador Holbrooke and looks forward to enhanced and fruitful engagement with the special envoy to further the cause of peace and stability of the region,' Dawn quoted the foreign ministry spokesman as saying.

January 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's envoy said Tuesday his country had not 'rejected' the evidence that India had furnished of the involvement of elements from his country in the Mumbai carnage, even as a Pakistani newspaper reported that Islamabad had told the US that the material was 'insufficient'. 'There is no question of rejection of material that the Indian government has given us,' Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik told reporters in New Delhi on the sidelines of a conference of Asia Africa Rural Development Organisation.

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.