Pakistan

Pakistan does an about turn, not to send ISI chief to India

Islamabad, Nov. 29: The Pakistan Government has done an about turn on its earlier promise to send Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director-General Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha to India in connection with the probe into the terrorist strikes in Mumbai.

After a late night meeting between Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, it was decided that a representative of the intelligence agency would travel to India.

"A representative of the ISI will visit India, instead of its Director General Lt. Gen. Shuja Pasha, to help in investigating the Mumbai terrorism incident," a spokesman for the Prime Minister''s House said.

ISI chief will visit India: Pakistan

India, PakistanNew Delhi, Nov. 28 : The Government of Pakistan today agreed to India''s demand to send the chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to New Delhi to share information on ways to tackle the menace of terrorism.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced that ISI Director-General Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha would soon visit New Delhi, as was desired by the Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Mumbai terror strike might affect US reconciliation moves in S. Asia: NYT

Mumbai AttackIslamabad, Nov. 28 : The strategy of the United States in South Asia is likely to come unstuck because of the lack of trust that exists between India and Pakistan, experts feel.

Though both countries are moving towards improving bilateral ties through various channels, the New York Times reports that the hostility between the two South Asian neighbors could not only derail the ongoing composite dialogue process, but also have “deep consequences” for the United States, particularly if India finds Pakistani fingerprints on the latest well-planned terrorist operation in Mumbai.

“Foreign militants entering Balochistan via Pak-Afghan border”

Pakistan FlagIslamabad, Nov 28 : Pakistani intelligence agencies are learnt to have gathered credible information on the influx of foreign militants and sophisticated weapons into Pashtun areas of Balochistan PROVINCE via the Pak-Afghan border. The weapons were being supplied to Balochistan’s Chaman, Pishin and Qila Abdullah districts for the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), by ‘anti-Balochistan and anti-Pakistan quarters’, the Daily Times quoted reliable sources as saying.

PCB chief Butt, Miandad meet Sindh Governor to discuss India series

Pakistan Cricket BoardKarachi, Nov 28 : PCB chairman Ijaz Butt and the Board’s Director-General Javed Miandad reportedly held high-level meetings with leading Pakistan government functionaries in Karachi in a bid to ensure that the first leg of the home series against India is held smoothly here in January.

The duo called on Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan and sought his support for the home series that will kick off with India’s arrival here on January 5.

Rifts surface in Pak Taliban

Peshawar, Nov 28: Rifts seem to be appearing in the ranks of the Pakistan unit of the Taliban, the Tehrek-e-Taliban (TTP), as one of the rival factions that the group led by Baitullah Mehsud was “misusing Islam to prolong its terror reign”. It branded the TTP chief’s activities as “militancy”.

Commander Qari Zainuddin Mehsud, who is loyal to slain Taliban leader Abdullah Mehsud, said this.

In pamphlets written in Urdu and distributed in Tank city on Thursday, Zainuddin Mehsud, chief of the Abdullah Mehsud group, charged Baitullah with the killings of ‘jihadi leaders’.

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