Lahore, Dec. 14 : India and Pakistan cannot afford to engage themselves in a full-fledged conventional war or even the kind of eyeball-to-eyeball military brinkmanship they engaged in 2001-02, a political and defence analyst has said.

According to Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi, in the wake of last month''s terror attacks in Mumbai, both countries have to accept that terrorism is a threat to both and that they need to cooperate to deal with it.

Lahore, Dec. 14 : Jihadi leaders, including five belonging to the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa organization, who were placed under preventive detention, will be let off soon if there is no evidence of their involvement in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, the chief of police in Pakistan''s Punjab Province, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Shaukat Javed has said.

Javed was quoted by The News as saying that "No activist or worker of the Jamaat-ud-Daawa has been detained because it is not required under the UN Security Council resolution."

Paris, Dec. 14 : Pakistan''s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has refused to accept that the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which has been banned in his country, is a political front for the militant Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

Currently on a visit to French capital Paris, Qureshi was quoted by the Daily Times as saying. "If there is evidence (of terrorist activities) we will take action."

Islamabad, Dec. 14 : An editorial in a Pakistani paper has said that both Pakistan and India are currently engaged in a media war that if not stopped, will act as a major obstacle to arriving at any solution to the crisis emanating out of the November 26-29 terror attack in Mumbai.

Calling on Pakistani media to act responsibly and objectively on the incident and its aftermath, the Daily Times editorial does not hesitate in saying that Indian media has been far from responsible on the reportage front.

Lahore, Dec. 14 : Reiterating that Pakistan would not hand over any of its citizens to India for interrogation in connection with last month''s terrorist attacks in Mumbai and that New Delhi has shared ''very little information'' with Islamabad on the incident, President Asif Ali Zardari also said on Saturday night that there were no links between the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

Islamabad  - Indian military aircraft violated Pakistani airspace on Saturday, Pakistani media reported.