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Pak asks India to display patience on Mumbai probe

Pak asks India to display patience on Mumbai probeIslamabad, Feb 6: Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit has asked India to display patience on the investigations being carried by it on the Mumbai attacks.

Rejecting India's allegations that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was linked to the attacks, Basit said such statements were not helpful.

Basit said India should not jump the gun by making statements at a time when Pakistan was carrying out probe.

Banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa resurfaces in Pakistan

Banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa resurfaces in PakistanLahore, Feb 6 : Thousands of supporters of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charity arm of terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, held a `Kashmir Solidarity Conference' on The Mall, despite a UN ban on the organisation.

Participants arriving from various districts held black and white JuD flags and shouted their usual slogans. They had gathered under a `temporary' new name, Tehrik-e-Azadi-e-Kashmir (TAK).

Pak Law Ministry sends Mumbai probe report to Gilani

Pak Law Ministry sends Mumbai probe report to GilaniIslamabad, Feb 6 : The Law Ministry has submitted a summary of findings of a Pakistani probe into the Mumbai terrorist attacks to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

A high-level Federal Investigation Agency team was tasked to probe the attacks in the light of a dossier of evidence that India shared with Pakistan.

Sources privy to the investigation said the submission was made after consultations with the Interior Ministry, the Foreign Ministry and the Law Department, the Daily Times reported.

Pak Taliban threatens to intensify attacks on NATO supplies

Pak Taliban threatens to intensify attacks on NATO suppliesPeshawar, Feb 6 : The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has threatened to intensify attacks on government installations and NATO supplies if military operations in the Swat Valley and Federally Administered Tribal Areas are not stopped.

TTP spokesman Maulvi Omar said that their men would launch attacks on government installations if the military operations against the militants continued.

Suicide bomber kills 32 Shias in Pakistan

Suicide bomber kills 32 Shias in PakistanLahore, Feb 6 : At least 32 people were killed in a suspected suicide bombing at Dera Gazi Khan mosque on Thursday.

Police said the blast-targeted dozens of Shias who had converged at the Al Hussainia Mosque after dark, shortly before a prayer meeting.

Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, police were swift to blame sectarian extremists for the tragedy.

"Ninety-nine percent it looks like a suicide attack," Shaukat Javed, Inspector General of Punjab Police, said.

Pak to continue its political, moral and diplomatic support to people of Kashmir

Pakistan FlagIslamabad, Feb. 5 : Pakistan has reiterated that it would continue to support the freedom struggle of the Kashmiri people, with both President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister saying that they would pursue a resolution of the Kashmir dispute based on the wishes of Kashmiri people.

Zardari in the message on Kashmir solidarity day said that Pakistan would continue its resolute political, moral and diplomatic support to the struggle of the Kashmiri people.

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