Pak not to hand over any national found involved in 26/11

Karachi, Jan 11 (PTI) In a rebuff to India, Pakistan
Sunday ruled out handing over to any country any of its
nationals found involved in the Mumbai terror attacks saying
"necessary action" will be taken under its own laws.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Pakistan is
conducting its own probe into the evidence received from India
on the Mumbai attacks and indicated that any Pakistani
national found to be involved in the Mumbai attacks will not
be handed over to any other country. India has been pressing
Pakistan to hand over the terror attack suspects.

"We are conducting our own investigation and once we
have completed it, we will bring the findings before the
people," Gilani said, adding that the evidence provided by
India was being examined by investigators.

"We have our own laws and we will take action according
to them. We want to assure everyone that we will not allow our
soil to be used for terrorism," the premier told reporters on
the sidelines of a function in Sukkur district in southern
Sindh province.

Pakistan is taking action against terrorists and terror
groups and this will continue, he added.

Pointing fingers at Indian politicians , Gilani said
they should "mend their ways" claiming their statements were
stoking tensions.

Earlier, in his address at the inauguration of Sangi
Cadet College in Sukkur, Gilani said Pakistan does not want
tensions in the region.

The armed forces, government and people are united to
face any eventuality and to defend the country, he said.

"No one can dare cast an evil eye at the country," Gilani
said. "I want to assure you that this government will complete
its five-year term and solve the problems of the country," he
said amid reports of differences between him and President
Asif Ali Zardari.

Pakistani authorities meanwhile extended by two months
the detention of Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed
and seven other activists of the front organisation of
Lashkar-e-Toiba, blamed for the Mumbai terrorist attacks.

A spokesman for the Punjab government told reporters that
the province's home department had Saturday extended the
detention of Saeed and the seven other JuD leaders by 60 days.

Saeed and other Jamaat leaders were placed under house
arrest for a month on December 11 last year after the UN
Security Council listed the group as a front for LeT. Saeed's
home in Johar Town area of Lahore was declared a "sub-jail".

The Jamaat leaders have been detained under the
Maintenance of Public Order ordinance, which allows a person
to be held for up to 90 days. Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed
Mukhtar told reporters last month that Saeed and other
militant leaders detained by Pakistani authorities could not
be tried in the absence of evidence against them.

The Punjab government spokesman also said 10 schools and
18 dispensaries run by the Jamaat in the province had been
taken over by authorities. Seven Jamaat publications had been
banned and all copies had been confiscated, he said.

Among the other Jamaat leaders whose detention was
extended are Col (retired) Nazir Ahmed, Amir Hamza, Yasin
Baloch, Mufti Abdur Rahman and Qazi Niaz.

Though Pakistani authorities have detained Jamaat
leaders, sealed the group's offices across the country and
frozen its bank accounts, local media reports have described
the measures as "half-hearted".

The reports have said Saeed, also the leader of the LeT,
had been allowed to leave his home and that the Jamaat's
sprawling headquarters at Muridke near Lahore was still fully
operational. PTI RHL
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