Hasan Suroor
LONDON: Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said action “has got to be taken” over the 26/11 Mumbai bombings so that India and Pakistan could move towards “more secure relationships.”
“I recognise th t India’s difficulties arise from the Mumbai bombing and what that has done, and the action that has got to be taken as […]

Washington: Casting doubts about Pakistan’s sincerity in holding the trial of its nationals suspected to have been involved in the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, an influential Republican lawmaker says they should be tried before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague.
“There is no reason for us to be secure in the […]

Vinay Kumar 
NEW DELHI: Germany on Thursday held the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba responsible for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks but refrained from hazarding a guess if other groups having Al-Qaeda links could also be involved.
“Based on whatever investigations we have conducted till now, we feel it is Lashkar that is responsible for these attacks,” Joerg Ziercke, president […]

Hasan Suroor
LONDON: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s remarks urging India not to insist on the extradition of Pakistani terror suspects behind the Mumbai attacks has surprised observers here who point out that it is at odds with Britain’s own position in relation to crimes committed by foreign nationals on its soil.
Britain insists that such people […]

New Delhi: The U.S. has contended that the dossier given by India to Pakistan on the Mumbai attacks was “credible” but suggested that New Delhi should allow time to Islamabad to act on it.
U.S. ambassador to India David C. Mulford said the dossier contains extensive inputs from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…..(Full Story)

Sandeep Dikshit
 
 
 
NEW DELHI: While maintaining that it would work “non-stop” to bring the masterminds of the Mumbai terror attack to justice, the U.S. has not concurred with India’s formulation of official Pakistani agencies having given a helping hand to the attackers.
Speaking at a farewell luncheon for him organised by Confederation of India Industry here on […]

Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: The United States has described India sharing information on the Mumbai attacks with Pakistan as a “positive” development and urged the two sides to cooperate in order to get to the perpetrators.
“The two sides need to exchange information. People have to work with each other,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher, who […]

Nirupama Subramanian
 
 
 
ISLAMABAD: India must provide evidence of its allegation that elements in Pakistan were involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader Nawaz Sharif has said.
Mr. Sharif told a gathering in Lahore on Tuesday that he had no doubt that the Pakistani government was….(Full Story)

Washington: Asking Pakistan to do “everything it can” to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror strikes to justice, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said Islamabad knows that it should act against terrorism and extremism or else it will “consume” the country.
“But this really comes down to dealing with the problem, and that […]

Islamabad: In a tough message to Pakistan, the United States has said it was not satisfied with what Islamabad had done so far for eradicating terrorism from its soil after the Mumbai terror attack, which was not an ordinary event that can be “swept under the carpet.”
The message was conveyed by top American officials to […]