Pakistan not to hand over its citizens to India

Asif Ali ZardariIslamabad, Dec. 12 : Pakistan will not hand over any of its nationals to India or to any other country. This was decided in a meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani here today.

According to a statement issued from the Aiwan-e-Sadr, the official residence of the President, Zardari and Gilani exchanged views on current situation in the country. The News said Pakistan''s Information and Broadcasting Minister Sherry Rehman was also present at the meeting.

Geo News said matters concerning tensions between Pakistan and India, the action against banned outfits and its possible reaction were discussed.

Both Zardari and Gilani agreed that Pakistan will take action against militants on its soil as per the laws of the country.

The News quoted them as saying that Pakistan itself has been a target of terrorism, and therefore, any action taken would not be under any kind of pressure from any quarter.

It was also decided to intensify security across the country to counter any reaction to the government''s action against banned outfits.

Earlier, Pakistan pressed India to share evidence about the Mumbai attacks, warning that any effort to prosecute key suspects rounded up in Pakistan would be pointless without it.

Meanwhile, according to the Dawn, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Pakistan firmly believed that its territory should not be used to commit any act of terrorism.

"However, our own investigations cannot proceed beyond a certain point without provision of credible information and evidence pertaining to Mumbai attacks," Qureshi said in a televised statement.

Indian authorities have released what they said are the names of the ten terrorists and their hometowns in Pakistan.

Indian investigators have alleged that the gunmen were trained in camps in Pakistan after interrogating Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone gunman captured alive in Mumbai on November 26.

Pakistan insists that its own investigation has had to rely on Indian news reports due to the lack of information coming from authorities in Mumbai and New Delhi. (ANI)

General: