US asks Pak to bring perpetrators of Mumbai attacks to justice

September 20th, 2009 LAHORE - Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and chief of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa group, has been put under house arrest at his residence here, a media report said Monday. A posse of police personnel has been deployed outside his residence, "restricting his movement", Geo TV reported Monday.

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.

September 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States has said that it 'hopes' Pakistan would bring the Mumbai terror attacks perpetrators to book. "We would hope that the Pakistani authorities will continue their investigation and bring the perpetrators of the attacks to justice," The News quoted US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P J Crowley, as saying.

July 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has termed as baseless the US allegations regarding the presence of culprits involved in terror incidents in the US and India living in Pakistan. Reacting to the statement given by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton alleging that the perpetrator of US 9/11 and Indian 26/11 are in Pakistan, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said these culprits were not in Pakistan but in Afghanistan instead.

July 16th, 2009 Sharm el-SHEIKH - Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon met his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on the sidelines of the XVth Non-Alignment Movement (NAM) Summit for a second time on Wednesday. The meeting was held ahead of meeting between Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday.

July 14th, 2009 CAIRO - External Affairs Minister S.M Krishna has said that New Delhi would like a visible response from Islamabad, which should have commitment to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks. Speaking at a press conference on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Sharm-al Shaikh here last night, Krishna said that India wants an assurance from Pakistan that acts of terrorism engineered from Pakistan soil will not be repeated.

July 13th, 2009 PARIS - India was still studying the dossier on the probe into the Mumbai terror attack handed to it by Pakistan, a senior official travelling with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Monday, a day before the foreign secretaries of the two countries are to meet in Egypt. The dossier was handed by Pakistani internal security minister Rehman Malik to Indian charge d' affaire Manpreet Vora in Islamabad late Saturday, sources disclosed.

June 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan seriously believes that composite dialogue is in the interest of both India and Pakistan, foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit said here Thursday. "Talks are unavoidable for durable peace and prosperity in the region," Basit said at a weekly press briefing.

June 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pressing Pakistan to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice, the United States says it wants to make sure that Islamabad is acting aggressively against extremist elements within its borders. "Well, we continue to impress upon the Government of Pakistan the importance of bringing the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice," Assistant Secretary of State, Philip J.

June 2nd, 2009 LAHORE/NEW DELHI - Hafiz Saeed, the founder of terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) that India has blamed for the 26/11 Mumbai mayhem and whose house arrest was annulled by a Pakistani court, Tuesday denied he was ever in touch with Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone gunman captured alive during the carnage. Ajmal Kasab has neither been in touch with him nor with his organization, Geo TV quoted Saeed as saying soon after his release.

May 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Improvement of India-Pakistan ties hinges a great deal on action taken by Islamabad to bring perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack to justice, according to a top US diplomat. The Mumbai attack has been a major setback to the Indo-Pak peace process, Robert O.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States has once again asked Pakistan to act sincerely in its probe into the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, and bring the perpetrators to book. Talking to media persons at a regular press briefing here, State Department Spokesman, Robert Wood said the Mumbai investigations was far from over, as more concrete evidences were required to put the perpetrators behind bars.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon today said that Pakistan should take credible steps to dismantle terror infrastructure there. Discussing the progress in the probe into Mumbai attacks with US diplomats and officials here, Menon said that Pakistan needs to do more to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks to justice.

March 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US wants Pakistan to do more to bring those responsible for the Nov 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai to justice. 'Overall our assessment has been that Pakistan has been providing some helpful information, but clearly, you know, more can be done,' State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Monday ahead of a meeting between Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

February 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US says it's working with India and Pakistan to bring all the perpetrators of Mumbai terror attacks to justice, but whether the lone surviving attacker should be extradited to Pakistan was a matter between them. 'I think that he (the attacker) should be put through a judicial process, and that judicial process should be fair and transparent,' State Department spokesperson Gordon Duguid told reporters Wednesday.