09-21-2006, 03:30 AM
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PTI | New Delhi
Pakistan would not discuss India's list of most wanted persons, including Dawood Ibrahim, under the proposed joint institutional mechanism on anti-terrorism, High Commissioner to India Aziz Ahmed Khan has said.
In an interview to CNN-IBN, Khan said Indian requests for intelligence on terrorists like Dawood Ibrahim, Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar and LeT head Hafeez Mohammad Sayeed would "not be entertained via this mechanism", according to a release by the news channel.
However<b>, he said the anti-terror mechanism could work well "if both sides wanted it to work", </b>the release said.
The decision to set up the mechanism was the most significant outcome of the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in Havana last week.
Asked about the possibility of Presidential pardon for Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death in Pakistan in a bomb blast case, the Pakistani envoy wondered why "sudden interest has developed in his case at the last minute".
<b>He claimed Jamat-ud-Dawa, the political wing of militant outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), was "a charitable organisation involved in charitable work". </b>While Pakistan had banned terrorist outfits<b> "there was no reason to ban Jamaat-ud-Dawa,</b> he added.
On Kashmir, he said the final solution was<b> "almost there to grab and as far as I am concerned, only four weeks away. What is required is for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf to sit and take a decision". </b>
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PTI | New Delhi
Pakistan would not discuss India's list of most wanted persons, including Dawood Ibrahim, under the proposed joint institutional mechanism on anti-terrorism, High Commissioner to India Aziz Ahmed Khan has said.
In an interview to CNN-IBN, Khan said Indian requests for intelligence on terrorists like Dawood Ibrahim, Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar and LeT head Hafeez Mohammad Sayeed would "not be entertained via this mechanism", according to a release by the news channel.
However<b>, he said the anti-terror mechanism could work well "if both sides wanted it to work", </b>the release said.
The decision to set up the mechanism was the most significant outcome of the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in Havana last week.
Asked about the possibility of Presidential pardon for Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death in Pakistan in a bomb blast case, the Pakistani envoy wondered why "sudden interest has developed in his case at the last minute".
<b>He claimed Jamat-ud-Dawa, the political wing of militant outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), was "a charitable organisation involved in charitable work". </b>While Pakistan had banned terrorist outfits<b> "there was no reason to ban Jamaat-ud-Dawa,</b> he added.
On Kashmir, he said the final solution was<b> "almost there to grab and as far as I am concerned, only four weeks away. What is required is for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf to sit and take a decision". </b>
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