Shah Mehmood Qureshi

...its acceptance that its soil was used in the November, 2008 Mumbai attacks, the News reported. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and other Security officials discussed the foreign policy of Pakistan keeping in...

...Pakistani national. Meeting also planned to project Pakistan point of view during the visit of US vice President-elect Joseph Biden. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and other Security officials attended the meeting. ...

...adviser Shirin Taher Khali who is a political scientist with Johns Hopkins University. Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was also a member of the group but resigned after becoming a member of the cabinet last year. In his book India and Pakistan:...

...Durrani being the apparent source for stories in the western media about Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah's (both Lashkar-e-Taiba commanders in charge of the Mumbai attacks) revelations to Pakistani interrogators. These damning reports established more...

...Pakistan has rejected India's demand for extradition of those behind the Mumbai attacks. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has made it clear that India's demand is unreasonable. He reiterated that they would be tried in Pakistan, if they were...

...on the nationalities of the foreigners. Ladha, located about 40 kilometers from the Afghan border, is the stronghold of Baitullah Mehsud, who leads the country's umbrella Taliban organisation, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The shadowy Mehsud was accused...

...residents said. The BBC's Charles Haviland in Islamabad says Ladha is the stronghold of the leader of the Pakistani Taleban, Baitullah Mehsud. Pakistan has repeatedly protested to Washington about the US strikes, with President Asif Ali Zardari saying that...

...conviction" of those behind the Mumbai incident, the Dawn newspaper quoted US sources as saying. Meanwhile, former Premier Nawaz Sharif, unhappy with the chill in Indo-Pak ties, said the PPP-led government should try to normalise bilateral relations and sought...

...bend under international pressure. The defiance came through clearly through the statements of Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi who ruled out extradition of any terrorist to India, while audaciously declaring that Pakistan had not detained...

...on rebuilding our internal institutions. So if we engage in these issues, it will be harmful for Pakistan, foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told Geo TV. He was asked whether India and America have made demands for handing over terror suspectsLashkar-e-Toiba...

...the fugitives, has, nevertheless, continued to press Pakistan to extradite fugitives wanted by India. External affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee had said that the lack of an extradition treaty was not an excuse as there were several other international agreements...

...why the official media has only highlighted statements by Pakistani leaders," Sriknath Kondapalli, a China expert at Jawaharlal Nehru University, told IANS. "Through official media, China is speaking on behalf of its client state, Pakistan," Kondapalli said. Barely...

...Indo-Pak tensions to External Affairs Minister, with an aim of defusing the situation. The Foreign Minister had spoken to Pranab Mukherjee over the phone last week and advised that both countries should hold talks to ease the situation. Pranab Mukherjee speaking...

...have our own laws and judicial system, which do not allow us to hand over any person(s) to India, foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told Pakistans Geo TV. India has asked Pakistan to hand over 20 men, including suspected Mumbai attacks mastermind Zakiur...

...as well, since Pakistan has suffered greatly from terrorism. And of course, President Zardari lost his great wife, Benazir Bhutto, to the terrorists,” Rice said. Rice further elaborated the motive of the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage was to “stir up trouble”...

..."Whatever action we take will be in the interest of the country and its people," he said during a press conference in his hometown, Multan. Indian officials remains sceptical about the arrests and about Pakistan's commitment to cracking down on LeT or JeM....

...were arrested last month for rigging bombs on motorbikes that tore through a crowd of Muslim worshippers in the western town of Malegaon. People now understand that no single religion has a monopoly over terrorism, Mr Qasmi said. Experts maintain that the...

...official told Hindustan Times. In Islamabad, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi ruled out the handover of Azhar, Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon — persons whose deportation has been specifically asked for by India. “The arrests are being made for our own...

Islamabad, Dec 10, IRNA Pakistan-Arrests Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) founder Maulana Masood Azhar has been placed under house arrest as international pressure mounted on Pakistan to act against such 'non-state actors' in the aftermath of the Mumbai

...Dec 11 (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte arrived in Islamabad on Thursday as pressure builds on Pakistan to take stern action against Islamist militants following last month's attack on Mumbai. Negroponte is expected to meet President...

...attack on Mumbai. Negroponte is expected to meet President Asif Ali Zardari and will have talks with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a foreign ministry official said. US embassy spokesman Lou Fintor said Negroponte was discussing "regional issues" with...

...arrived in the morning and will also hold talks with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi, said a ministry official. The talks will focus on relations with India, which have suffered in the wake of the...

...backing of both groups, Ejaz Haider, said Thursday that the actions against Mr. Saeed would have little effect. “Lashkar-e-Taiba is already banned. Now you ban Jamaat-ud-Dawa, and you ban Hafiz Saeed and 30 others,” said Mr. Haider, a consulting editor of...

...moves from Zardari, who is tainted by past charges of corruption and gained power only after his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated. Yet Zardari has renounced any first use of nuclear weapons and called for an economic union with...