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Pakistani FM says India not cooperating in Mumbai attacks probe

Pakistani FM says India not cooperating in Mumbai attacks probeIslamabad - Pakistan's foreign minister complained Friday that the Indian government was not cooperating in jointly investigating last month's Mumbai attacks which were allegedly masterminded by a Pakistan-based militant group.

"The government of Pakistan has already initiated investigations on its own," Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in a televised statement.

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

Indian TV soap-addicted Pak women have high incidence of psychological problems

Islamabad, Dec 12 : Women in Pakistan, who are addicted to TV soap operas, mostly produced in India, are found to have high incidence of psychological problems.

TV soaps, like Kyon Key Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Koi Apna Sa, Saans, Sanskriti, Shagun, Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, Desh Mein Nikla HoGa Chand, have been so popular among Pakistani women that girls, housewives and elderly women alike are virtually addicted to them.

Women, who are mostly confined to their homes, keep waiting for them, and when they are on air, abandon work, glue to the screens and won't like to be disturbed. In fact, the lengthy episodes are followed by detailed discussions on storyline, characters, dresses and speculative talk on what will happen next.

Islamabad should take action against JuD: Burney

Chandigarh, Dec 12 : Pakistan Human Rights activist, Ansar Burney, has said that Islamabad should take action against Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) for being a terrorist outfit, and should also set aside its differences with New Delhi and join the fight against militancy.

"If you have arrested, then bring them in front of the people and produce them in the court. JuD has written against me. They have instigated my people against me," said Burney.

Burney said that the JuD is actually frontal organisation of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

Pakistani security forces recently raided a camp used by LeT in a strike against the militant group blamed by India for Mumbai attacks.

Pak also probing Mumbai attacks, Zardari tells Negroponte

Pak also probing Mumbai attacks, Zardari tells NegroponteIslamabad, Dec. 12 : Pakistan is carrying out its own investigation into last month's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Thursday.

"The government is undertaking its own investigation of the incident and taking appropriate measures," an official statement quoted Zardari as telling visiting US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte in a meeting at the President's House.

Suspected US air raid kills six militants in Pakistan

Islamabad - An overnight airstrike, suspected to be carried out by US forces based in Afghanistan, killed at least six Islamist militants in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district, officials and local residents said on Friday.

A missile believed to be fired from a pilotless Predator aircraft hit a house Thursday night in Azam Warsak area some 15 kilometres west of Wana, the region's main town.

"Informants have put the death toll at six," an intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

There were no immediate US comments on the incident.

Pakistan's outlawed charity rejects UN sanctions

Pakistan MapIslamabad - A Pakistan-based charity denounced on Thursday sanctions by the United Nations Security Council levelled against it for being a front group for the terrorist organization accused of carrying out the Mumbai attacks.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) was included in a list of entities subject to an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo by the UN Security Council's al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee on Wednesday.

The organization is widely believed to be a new front for the Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT), which Indian authorities said masterminded the November 26 Mumbai siege that killed more than 170 people.

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