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Pak
continues to be in denial mode
‘Gilani
never confirmed arrest of LeT henchman’
An
official spokesman has denied Indian and US
media reports that Prime Minister Yousuf
Raza Gilani had confirmed the arrest of
Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Zarar Shah. The
Prime Minister’s House, in a statement,
said the reports were ‘baseless’, adding
that Gilani ‘did not issue any such
statement.’
Nation
page: India,
Pak swap lists of nuclear installations
JuD
may rename itself to get around ban
New
Delhi, January 1
Is
Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the
front organisation of Lashkar-e-Taiba,
preparing to reincarnate under a new name in
the wake of a ban clamped on it by the UN
Security Council for its involvement in
Mumbai terror attacks?
FBI
visits Kasab’s village?
Islamabad,
January 1
In
another related development, interior
adviser Rehman Malik has denied US media
reports, widely circulated by Pakistani
newspapers and channels, that an FBI team
had visited Faridkot - birthplace of the
lone-surviving gunner Ajmal Kasab — and
declared that no such person belonged to the
place.
Bush
to Zardari, Manmohan: Work for
S Asia peace
Crawford/Islamabad,
January 1
US
President George W Bush has categorically
told both Pakistan and India that Washington
desires peace and stability in South Asia.
In separate telephone conversations with
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Bush urged
both to cooperate with each other in
investigations relating to the terror
attacks that took place in Mumbai in
November.
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