Pakistan to share evidence of foreign elements behind terror

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.

July 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan would now share the evidence of "foreign powers' involvement" in activities being carried out against it, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit has said. "Pakistan is a responsible nation, if irrefutable evidence is found, it would be shared with the relevant countries instead of being released to the media," The Daily Times quoted Basit, as saying.

April 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has told the United States that it cannot cross its limits for the war on terror. "Pakistan told the US that Islamabad has its own limits in war on terror and it cannot cross it," The News quoted , Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, as saying.

March 4th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here Wednesday that the time had come when Pakistan needed to act decisively against the perpetrators of terror. 'The elements used by Pakistan in Afghanistan and other countries in the past are now spreading terror there,' Abdullah told reporters here.

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 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Seeking to intensify international pressure on Pakistan, India is set to share with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon the results of its probe into the Mumbai attacks when he comes here next week. The UN chief will be coming to New Delhi on a day-long visit Feb 5 to attend the 'Delhi Sustainable Summit', aimed at putting climate change on the global agenda.

January 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Fresh from his visit to Pakistan, Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud Thursday met National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan and other officials here to discuss the Mumbai terror attacks and the India-Pakistan tensions.

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 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 - Defence Minister A.K. Antony Monday called a high-level meeting of the three Service chiefs to assess the security scenario as New Delhi handed over to Islamabad evidence of the complicity of Pakistan-based militants in the Mumbai terror attack, a senior official said.

January 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani government is in a bind on dealing with an appeal for help from Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone gunman captured during the Mumbai terror strikes, a noted commentator said Monday. India had Dec 23 forwarded Kasab's letter seeking legal help and his confessional statement to the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi and the Pakistani foreign office had the same day confirmed receiving the letter.

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 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Monday confirmed it has received evidence regarding Mumbai terror attacks from India, and 'concerned authorities' were 'examining the material'. India's Extrenal Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday said that India has handed over evidence on the Mumbai attacks to Pakistan and expected a prompt investigation.

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 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.