Islamabad, Dec. 13: In the wake of last month's terror attacks in Mumbai and the subsequent crackdown by the Pakistan Government on the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba and its political wing – the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a coalition of five major Jihadi organisations, led by militant commander Syed Salahuddin, has disappeared.

According to The News, these Jihadi organizations have temporarily dissolved themselves, closed down their offices, removed all signs and asked their leaders to stay quiet.

"Following the Mumbai attacks and the subsequent tension between Pakistan and India, the United Jihad Council has decided to remain silent," The News quoted an unnamed UJC commander, as saying.

Islamabad/Lahore/Karachi/Peshawar, Dec. 13: Pakistan police have reportedly arrested 167 Jamaat-ud-Dawa operatives and closed down over 50 of its offices across the country in a continued crackdown against the banned group.

The Daily Times quoted official sources in Islamabad as saying that three offices of the Jamaat-ud-Daawa in the national capital were sealed on Friday.

Islamabad''s Chief Commissioner Kamran Lashari said no arrests were made initially, but later in a raid on a fourth office, six operatives were arrested.

Islamabad, 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.

Islamabad, Dec 12 : Pakistan today pressed India to share evidence from the Mumbai attacks, warning that any effort to prosecute key suspects rounded up in Pakistan will be hamstrung without it.

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

“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 were the names and Pakistani hometowns of the 10 gunmen who assailed India’s commercial capital over three days.

Islamabad, Dec 12 : Pakistan Defense Minister Ahmad Mukhtar today said that Pakistan would have been declared a terrorist country, had “we not accepted the ban on Jamaat-ud-Daawa.”

Lahore/Islamabad, Dec 12 : The crackdown against Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) is still continuing in Punjab after the Interior Ministry imposed a ban on the outfit.

The government placed JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed under house arrest and the offices of the JuD have been sealed by the police.

According to police sources, the central office of the Dawa Jamia Alqadsia have been sealed in Lahore.

Besides, many activists have been nabbed in several cities. Police have arrested three persons in Lahore and sealed two centers of the Dawa Ayesha Siddiqua and the Mubarak Masjid.