PIA operating half-empty flights to India aftermath Mumbai attack

October 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that the perpetrators of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks were not Islamabad's friends, and that the activities of terror groups involved in such ghastly terror acts should be 'checked, curtailed and shut'. "Those who carried out the Mumbai terrorist attack that killed 166 innocent people are not friends of Pakistan," Qureshi said.

September 30th, 2009 NEW YORK - The banned terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the outfit which planned and carried out the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, is once again on the look out for carrying out similar attacks in India, warned top US counter terrorism and intelligence officials. While Pakistan claims that it has taken concrete steps to prevent terror groups operating on its soil from planning attacks on other countries, senior American military, intelligence and counter terrorism officials have said that the LeT is largely 'intact' and 'determined' to plot new attacks, The New York Times reports.

September 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has claimed that India is involved in fanning terrorism inside Pakistan even though it has no 'concrete' evidence in this regard. In an interview to a private television channel, Malik claimed that extremists who were apprehended during raids in the Swat Valley have confirmed India's hand in terror activities inside Pakistan.

September 23rd, 2009 FRANKFURT -Highly placed government sources have specific inputs that Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafeez Saeed is not under house arrest in Lahore, but is living in protective custody in that city. The JuD chief, who is seen by New Delhi as the mastermind of 26/11, Mumbai attacks was arrested earlier this week by authorities in Pakistan, but was not booked for the Mumbai attacks.

September 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - India has demanded that Pakistan take "more decisive action" against Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. "We want Saeed to be tried for his Mumbai attack," Indian External Affairs Minister S.M.

September 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said he expects to meet Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna in New York during which discussion will take place on the Mumbai terror attack.

September 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Monday asked India to provide more proof to enable it to carry forward its probe in 26/11 Mumbai terror attack instead of doubting Pakistan's sincerity. The latest reaction of the Government of Pakistan has come following Indian Government's allegation blaming it for deliberately holding up the probe in Mumbai attacks.

September 5th, 2009 KARACHI/BANGALORE - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Saturday that delay in resuming India-Pakistan talks will only help terrorists in achieving their nefarious designs. Pakistan wants equity-based relations with India and resumption of the composite dialogue at the earliest, he said, while speaking to reporters in Karachi after inaugurating a housing scheme for low income people.

August 12th, 2009 FBI expert testifies at Mumbai terror attack trialMUMBAI, India — The gunmen who laid siege to the Indian city of Mumbai carried GPS devices and a satellite phone that shows they traveled from Pakistan to India, an FBI expert testified Wednesday at the trial of the lone surviving suspect. Police recovered the devices during their investigation of the November attack, which killed 166 people.

July 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Even as the US recognises that India and Pakistan are two sovereign nations, it can still do much to encourage them to continue to talk in the event of another Mumbai type of attack, according to Washington's new envoy to India. "I think there's a lot of work here for me to do, and for the administration and the Congress to do," Ambassador designate Timothy Roemer told the Senate Foreign Relations panel at his confirmation hearing Tuesday.

July 7th, 2009 VIRGINIA - The threat perception on vital installations in three coastal states Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa has been increased manifold following intelligence reports of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) channelising huge amounts of money from its Gulf-based networks for terror strikes against the country. According to a report in the Terrorism Monitor, a periodical published by the Virginia based Jamestown Foundation, intelligence authorities have revealed that the LeT's marine wing is planning a repeat of the 26/11 Mumbai attack, and is on the look out for an incursion into India via the western sea-coast.

June 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States has welcomed as "encouraging" a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in the aftermath of the November Mumbai attacks saying the two countries need to continue their dialogue. "A resumption of such high-level engagement in the aftermath of the November Mumbai attacks is encouraging," State Department Spokesman, Ian Kelly told reporters Tuesday when asked to comment on the two leaders' meeting on the sidelines of the Yekaterinburg summit.

June 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan has moved more troops to its border with Afghanistan than it has to its border with India since the Nov 26 Mumbai terror attacks, according to a top US official. But the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, declined to say how many troops Pakistan has moved from the border with India even as he refuted a suggestion that Pakistani troops there are back to the pre-Mumbai attack levels.

June 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tuesday urged India to resume the sub-continental dialogue process, holding that the resolution of the Kashmir dispute holds the key to peace in the region. Kashmir holds the key to peace in the region.

April 19th, 2009 LAHORE - Until the issues regarding the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack are resolved between India and Pakistan, it is almost unrealistic to expect New Delhi to restart peace talks with Islamabad, an expert has said. Former CIA Middle-East expert and a key advisor to President Barack Obama, Bruce Riedel says the Mumbai attack is the core of the issue between India and Pakistan currently.