India’s foreign minister, keeping up pressure on Pakistan to act against militants blamed for the Mumbai attacks, said Monday countries failing to clamp down on terrorism would pay a heavy price.
Tension has run high between the nuclear-armed rivals since the November attacks which killed 179 people. India has blamed them on the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). The group denies involvement.
“Countries found wanting in their commitment to zero tolerance of terrorism will be made to pay a heavy price by the international community,” Pranab Mukherjee told a conference in India’s …

Islamabad: Acknowledging that the dossier on Mumbai attacks given by India contained “leads and good clues,” Pakistan on Saturday promised a fair investigation and said its results will be shared with New Delhi first.
Pakistan said it wanted to have an approach of “cooperative engagement” with India as war was no solution to the problem of terrorism which was a global phenomenon. “Quite a lot of material” was provided by India and the Pakistani investigators would work to convert this into “evidence that could stand up to judicial scrutiny,” Interior Ministry …

NEW DELHI (AFP) — The head of India’s army on Wednesday confirmed that Pakistan has redeployed troops along the two countries’ tense border but said his forces were ready for all eventualities.
“The aspect of some (Pakistani) troops coming towards the east… we are aware of it. That has happened. They have come to the eastern border of Pakistan with India,” General Deepak Kapoor told a news conference.
“However having known this fact, let me assure you that the Indian army has factored this in its planning,” he added. “That is not …

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – India said on Wednesday it would keep all options open to dismantle “terror outfits” after the Mumbai attacks and Pakistan finally confirmed the lone surviving gunman was Pakistani.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister dismissed his national security adviser shortly afterwards. India had been saying for weeks that Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, who was captured after the November attacks, was from Pakistan.
The prime minister’s office said Mehmood Ali Durrani had been sacked “for his irresponsible behavior for not taking the prime minister and other stakeholders into confidence, and a lack of …

NEW DELHI (AP) — The gunman said into the phone, “We have three foreigners, including women.” The response was plain and brutal: “Kill them,” the man said. Gunshots rang out inside the Mumbai hotel, followed by a round of cheering.
The ruthless exchange comes from a transcript of phone calls intercepted during the Mumbai attacks that was part of a dossier of evidence India handed Pakistan this week.
New Delhi says the evidence, which also included photographs of recovered weapons, data gleaned from satellite phones, and details from the interrogation of the …

NEW DELHI — In the beginning, they were 32. A squad of suicide bombers assembled in Pakistan, they were taught how to make bombs, withstand interrogation, and fight to their death.
They were whittled down to 10, and on a Saturday morning in November, they set sail from Karachi with coordinates plotted on a global positioning set. Once in Mumbai, they went on a killing spree, leaving 163 dead, all the while receiving detailed instructions and pep talks from their handlers across the border.
These are some of the details of their …

NEW DELHI (AP) — Pakistani authorities “must have had” a hand in the deadly Mumbai siege, India’s prime minister said Tuesday, stopping just short of directly accusing Islamabad of aiding the gunmen.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh repeated India’s allegations that the attack was carried out by the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. But in his most forceful speech since the November attacks, he also said “there is enough evidence to show that, given the sophistication and military precision of the attack, it must have had the support of some official agencies in …

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani investigators have unearthed substantive links between the gunmen who attacked Mumbai in November and a banned Pakistani Islamist militant group, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Ten gunmen killed 179 people in the attack on India’s financial hub that India has blamed on the Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group.
The group was set up by Pakistani security agencies in the late 1980s to fight Indian rule in the disputed Kashmir region but was banned in 2002, after Pakistan had signed up to the U.S.-led campaign against terrorism.

The reported movement of troops toward Pakistan’s border with India on Friday raised the threat of war between the two nuclear-armed rivals and will distract Pakistan from fighting Taliban-led militants, security analysts said.
The specter of war also may be exaggerated to reduce international pressure on Pakistan to crack down on a militant group blamed for the deadly Mumbai attacks last month, analysts said.
Regardless, even the reports of troop movements made the crisis much more serious than before and could undo most of the progress the two countries had made in …

WASHINGTON: Due to India’s war rhetoric and potentially dangerous military moves, Pakistanis must be reassured that the country, though committed to fighting terrorism, is prepared to defend itself against any aggression, Islamabad’s envoy in Washington told CNN on Saturday.
Hussain Haqqani said Pakistan wanted to pursue terrorists in the border areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan rather than go to war with India, adding the country also wanted to work with New Delhi to capture terrorists who were responsible for the Mumbai attacks.
“That said, over the last few days, we have reason …