Pakistan

Asif Ali Zardari advises India not to “over-react” on Mumbai terror strikes

Asif Ali Zardari advises India not to “over-react” on Mumbai terror strikesIslamabad, Nov 30 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has reportedly denied any Pakistani role in the Mumbai terror strikes, and pledged “action” against any group found to be involved.

He also advised New Delhi not to ‘over-react’ over the blasts, in blaming the attacks on Islamabad.

Pak-India-UK Forum condemns Mumbai terror strike

India, PakistanLondon, New Delhi, Nov. 29 : The Pakistan, India and UK Friendship Forum has strongly condemned the terrorist strikes in Mumbai that claimed over 150 lives and injured over 290.

Pakistan reverses decision to send intelligence chief to India

Indo-PakistanIslamabad - Pakistan decided to reverse a decision to send its spy chief to India, a move that can damage efforts to dampen growing tensions between the two countries over terrorist attacks in Mumbai, a government official said on Saturday.

Zahid Bashir, a spokesman of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, said a representative of Inter-Services Intelligence instead of its Director General Lieutenant-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha would be dispatched to New Delhi to cooperate with the probe into the Mumbai carnage.

UK police arriving in India to establish whether terrorists had British link

Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao DeshmukhLondon, Nov. 29 : British police have flown to India to establish whether any of the terrorists who killed 150 people in the Bombay massacre had links to the UK.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said two "British-born Pakistanis" were among the eight gunmen captured alive during bloody shoot-outs with soldiers.

The Daily Telegraph has also learnt that the terrorists monitored international reaction to the attacks on British newspaper websites and on Arabic websites popular in the north of England.

Pak changes stand, Now to send ISI representative

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza GilaniAfter assuring India in view of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, Pakistan has changed its stand.

Now Pakistan will send the ISI representative to India in place of spy agency chief.

Earlier, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday accepted
a request from his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh to send the ISI
chief to India for sharing of information related to the terrorist
attack in Mumbai.

The Pak Prime Minster's spokesman Zahid Bashir said that, "The
Pakistani Prime Minister accepted this offer. The two sides will work

Hong Kong mother jailed for abandoning baby on hillside

Hong Kong mother jailed for abandoning baby on hillsideHong Kong - A mother who abandoned her 5-day-old baby on a hillside has been jailed for six months in Hong Kong, a court report said Saturday.

Pakistani Maria Bibi, 24, left her son wearing only a diaper on the hill near a road in October. He as found by workers 11 hours later, his body crawling in ants.

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