Kabul - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was expected to arrive on a one-day trip to Afghanistan on Tuesday to hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on ways to combat Taliban-led militants active in both South-Asian nations, a government spokesman said.

"Both presidents will discuss bilateral issues, including finding better ways in fight against terrorism, and economic cooperation in their today's meeting among other issues," Siamak Herawi said.

Zardari, the widower of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was elected president in September. Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack, allegedly carried out by Pakistan-based Taliban militants.

New Delhi - Evidence shows that the Mumbai terrorist attacks must have had the support of some official agencies in Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday.

"The terrorist attack in Mumbai in November last year was clearly carried out by a Pakistan-based outfit, the Lashkar-e-Taiba," Singh said in his inaugural address at a conference of chief ministers to discuss India's internal security situation.

Lahore, Jan. 6 : Amidst international efforts to tone down the rising tension between India and Pakistan, religious groups in Pakistan have decreed that `Jihad' or the `holy war' would become mandatory for every citizen of Pakistan if India wages a war.

According to a `fatwa' issued by an all parties' conference, "Jihad will be mandatory for the Pakistani nation in case India attacks the country," the Daily Times reported.

Islamabad, Jan. 6 : Pakistan has been beating the drum about insufficient evidence regarding its complexity in the Mumbai attacks, and has once again rejected the proof provided by India terming it as `insufficient'.

Pakistan has reportedly told the US that the evidence provided by India is insufficient and no action can be based upon it.

Islamabad, Jan. 6: The probe of the November, 2008 Mumbai attacks has given clear indications that the perpetrators of the attack had links with Pakistan. Reaffirming the Indian stand, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher said that : "It is clear the "attacks have links to Pakistan or lead to Pakistani soil

As India handed over the details of the probe to Pakistan, Washington urged Islamabad to act on the proof provided.

New Delhi, Jan. 5 : India on Monday ruled out the possibility of conducting a joint probe with Pakistan over evidence on the Mumbai attacks.

Addressing a press conference here after a meeting with China''s Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei, Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Memon ruled out a joint investigation with Pakistan and vowed to go to any extent for the evidence of Mumbai attacks.

Menon reiterated that the Mumbai terror attack was hatched in Pakistan, adding that evidence collected from the lone survivor Ajmal Kasab, had also been provided to Pakistan.