Zardari held a meeting with the tribal elders at the President House to take their suggestions about combating terror on Wednesday.

However, tribal elders expressed reservations about the US drone attacks and said innocent people were also being killed.

According to the Dawn, President Zardari is reported to have told tribal elders, "There is no alternative to fighting militancy because militants want to capture political power through the use of force to impose their own political agenda. This the government would never allow."

President Zardari told BBC that India has failed to present conclusive evidence to prove their claims.

Zardari also pointed out that India is yet to prove that the gunmen who shook Mumbai on 26th of November had any relation with Pakistan. He also claimed that the sole surviving attacker Muhammad Ajmal Amir Kasab's alleged Pakistani origin is yet to be proved.

It is notable that Ajmal Amir Kasab's father identified him as his son after seeig his images in newspapers.

Islamabad, Dec 17: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistanis and Indians are made of the same mud, and added that "we are not the enemies of India.

"We look enormously, and we always react emotionally. Fear breeds fear. But I must repeat, India is not the enemy of Pakistan and we are not the enemies of the Indians," Zardari said in an interview to a French daily.

Zardari said "the current tension created fear. Of course, some Pakistanis cannot help but remember that India has 4800 tanks."

Washington, Dec 16 : US President George W Bush has vouched for Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's anti-terror credentials, after the latter looked him straight in the eye and told him he did not need to be told about the horrors of terrorism.

"President (Asif Ali) Zardari is determined ... he's said so publicly and he's said so to me privately, Bush told reporters traveling with him on Monday.

Islamabad, Dec. 15 : Pakistans's President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani here on Monday expressed their resolve to safeguard the country's defence and security and that Pakistan will itself investigate the elements posing threats in this regard.

Earlier, the Prime Minister held an important meeting with the President here at Aiwan-e-Sadar where Advisor to Prime Minister on National Security Mehmood Ali Durrani was also present.

Islamabad/New Delhi  - Pakistan on Sunday downplayed claims of violation of its airspace by Indian war planes, in a bid to avoid escalation of tension between the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours.

"It's a technical incursion and it is not an incursion as such," President Asif Ali Zardari told reporters in Islamabad.

According to him, two Indian planes entered Pakistan by mistake when they were trying to take a turn while flying 40,000 high on the other side of the border. He said Pakistani officials were in contact with Indian authorities on the issue.

Earlier, a spokesman for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said two Indian jets flew over the Pakistani part of divided Kashmir and near the eastern city of Lahore at around