Claiming that Pakistan has taken “solid” measures to curb the threat of terrorism in the region in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, Islamabad has called upon the world community to sway India to resume the suspended peace dialogues with Pakistan.
In a briefing to the foreign ambassadors at the Foreign Office in Islamabad, the Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi narrated the efforts made and investigations carried out by Pakistan in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
He said the Pakistani authorities were holding investigations into the Mumbai carnage to take the culprits to task and Islamabad would make all out efforts to address the Indian concerns.
“The results of the investigations will be made public next week and if any Pakistani is found involved, he will be taken to task as per the law of the land. However, he stressed in the same breath that: “If a war is imposed on Pakistan, Islamabad would retaliate with full military might.”
Qureshi briefed the foreign envoys about the administrative steps taken by the Pakistan government to dismantle the Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Jamaat-ul-Daawa network from the Pakistani soil, saying five LeT camps have been shut down and over 100 leaders of the JuD have been detained since December 10, 2008.
However, the Pakistani foreign minister regretted that the Indian government has not yet given any commitment to resume the suspended Indo-Pak talks, urging the world community to use its influence to break the current deadlock between the two nuclear
armed South Asian neighbours.
