Response to new Indian dossier next week: Pakistan

September 14th, 2009 MULTAN - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that he did not expect to achieve anything greater than "incremental progress" during his talks with his Indian counterpart SM Krishna in New York. Pakistan will adopt a clear stance on all outstanding issues, Qureshi told reporters on Sunday.

September 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Interior Advisor Rehman Malik has said that Islamabad would hand over its response on the latest Indian dossier regarding the Mumbai terror attacks to New Delhi next week. Malik, who chaired a meeting to review the progress of the 26/11 probe, asked the concerned authorities to follow the due process of law and ensure an efficient and transparent investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice.

August 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Friday handed to Pakistan a fresh dossier on Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, accused by it of being the mastermind behind the Mumbai terror attack. According to sources, the dossier was handed over during a meeting of Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and Pakistani High Commissioner Shahid Malik.

July 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - While India has vehemently denied receiving any dossier from Pakistan in Egypt during the Indo-Pak talks on the sidelines of the NAM summit, Pakistan has maintained that it certainly has handed over documents to New Delhi regarding its involvement in Baloch unrest which has the diplomacy of both countries volleying against each other. Pakistani diplomats have termed the documents as "a balanced statement addressing the real issues", while a top Indian diplomat allayed claims of receiving any such document saying no dossier was given by Pakistan on Balochistan.

July 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A meeting between Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton which took place in Phuket, Thailand, has been described as fruitful with both discussing several issues. Addressing a regular press briefing here, Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit said that talks between the two were successful.

March 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - As expected, Pakistan has termed the Indian response to its thirty questions on the Mumbai terror attack as 'irrelevant' and 'away from the target'. In a meeting chaired by the Interior Advisor Rehman Malik, Pakistan's Interior Secretary Kamal Shah, FIA Director General Tariq Khosa and other senior officials expressed their dissatisfaction over New Delhi's response.

February 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian government was formulating answers to Pakistan's queries on the dossier given to it on the 26/11 terror attacks, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Friday, adding that many of the answers were contained in the chargesheet filed by the Mumbai police.

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.

February 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's response to the Mumbai terror dossier will be discussed Monday at a meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. The Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) is set to meet 'to discuss how to proceed in the matter', the Nation reported Sunday.

February 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Thursday reiterated that it was yet to receive Islamabad's reply to its dossier pointing to the involvement of elements from Pakistan in the Mumbai terror attacks. 'We have not received any response to the dossier given to Pakistan,' Home Minister P.

February 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has completed its probe into the Mumbai attacks and would soon share this with India, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said, even as he pulled up the country's envoy to Britain for speaking out of turn on the issue. 'I assure the world, the media and the government and the people of India that the (Indian) dossier (on Mumbai) has been investigated and has been forwarded to the Ministry of Justice and after their approval, I will take you into confidence,' Gilani told reporters here Sunday on his return from the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos.

January 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Thursday snubbed Pakistan's demand for more information about the Mumbai terror attack, saying it had handed over the dossier 10 days ago and asked Islamabad to give a 'direct response' through diplomatic channels. India also indicated for the first time that it was ready to accept the trial of fugitives, suspected of involvement in the Mumbai carnage and terrorist attacks, in Pakistan.

January 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Contrary to Pakistan's claims that it has responded to an Indian dossier of evidences on the involvement of elements from this country in the Mumbai terror attacks, it now transpires this is still being pieced together. 'The Pakistani authorities were still examining the dossier and their reaction was expected shortly,' columnist Amir Mir wrote in The News daily Monday.

January 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Saturday said it has not received any response from Pakistan on the Mumbai terrorist attack dossier it handed over six days ago and underlined that Islamabad is obliged under international conventions to hand over the suspects to New Delhi. 'I will only comment after receiving the reply,' Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma told reporters when asked whether New Delhi has received any response to the dossier linking Pakistan-based elements to the Nov 26 Mumbai carnage.

January 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's ISI agency has 'given its feedback' to India about the Mumbai attacks, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said but New Delhi Saturday maintained it had not received any response on the Mumbai terrorist attack dossier it handed over six days ago. Gilani's remarks Friday came shortly before US vice-president-elect Joe Biden arrived in Islamabad for talks with the Pakistani leadership on the tensions with India in the wake of the carnage in Mumbai, Aaj TV reported.