Pakistan

Pakistan not to hand over its citizens to India

Asif Ali ZardariIslamabad, 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.

Lashkar-e-Taiba members in Germany, interior minister says

German Interior Minister Wolfgang SchaeubleNew Delhi - Members of the Pakistan militant group blamed for the terrorist attacks in Mumbai are residing in Germany, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Friday.

Schaeuble, who is on a visit to New Delhi, said the group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, had no organizational infrastructure in Germany, but individual members were living there.

The minister said there was no evidence to show the group was plotting attacks in Germany.

Solving Kashmir issue may not solve problem in Afghanistan: Cohen

SrinagarLahore, Dec. 12 : A well-known expert on South Asia has said that it would be simplistic to belief that solving the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan, would end the problems in Afghanistan.

“That’s going too fast and too much,’’ the Daily Times quoted Stephen Cohen, who has authored several books on the region including The Idea of Pakistan, as saying.

Pakistani national challenges US in a court of law

US & Pakistan Flag Washington, Dec. 12: Javaid Iqbal, a Pakistani TV technician working in Long Island, New York, at the time of the 9/11 attacks, has challenged his arrest, interrogation and expulsion from the country in a suit filed by him before the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

Meanwhile, a Government lawyer has pleaded that the US attorney general and the FBI chief should not be subjected to lawsuits filed by Arab Muslims held after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a Daily Times report says.

Pakistan asks India to share evidence from Mumbai terror attacks

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.

JuD ban averted Pak being declared terrorist country

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.”

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