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ISI chief not going to India
Pakistan has demanded evidence for Indian charges it was involved in the Mumbai attacks and reversed its decision to send its spy chief to India. Pakistan's government on Saturday reinforced its pledge to help India identify and apprehend those behind the attacks, which left more than 190 people dead in the financial hub of Mumbai. "We stand shoulder to shoulder with the Indian people to defeat this common enemy," Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told a news conference in Islamabad. However, Qureshi insisted that Pakistani authorities - including intelligence agencies that New Delhi has long accused of sponsoring terrorism - were not behind the carnage. "If they have evidence they should share it with us," Qureshi said. "Our hands are clean." His government also backed off a pledge made on Friday to send the chief of its Inter Services Intelligence agency in person. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari blamed the about-face on a "miscommunication" with India. Zardari said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had asked in a telephone call on Friday only that a "director" of the agency not the chief go to India. Posted by: Fred 2008-11-30 |
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