TEXT - India, Pakistan prime ministers' joint statement
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani (L) shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian Red Sea tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh July 16, 2009.
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India and Pakistan agreed on Thursday to work together to fight terrorism and ordered senior diplomats to meet as often as needed to improve relations between the two countries, a joint statement by their prime ministers said.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Following is a text of the joint statement issued after those talks:
The two prime ministers had a cordial and constructive meeting. They considered the entire gamut of bilateral relations with a view to charting the way forward in India-Pakistan relations.
Both leaders agreed that terrorism is the main threat to both countries. Both leaders affirmed their resolve to fight terrorism and to cooperate with each other to this end.
Prime Minister Singh reiterated the need to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice. Prime Minister Gilani assured that Pakistan will do everything in its power in this regard. He said that Pakistan has provided an updated status dossier on the investigations of the Mumbai attacks and had sought additional information/evidence. Prime Minister Singh said that the dossier is being reviewed.
Both leaders agreed that the two countries will share real time credible and actionable information on any future terrorist threats.
Prime Minister Gilani mentioned that Pakistan has some information on threats in Balochistan and other areas.
Both prime ministers recognised that dialogue is the only way forward. Action on terrorism should not be linked to the Composite Dialogue process and these should not be bracketed.
Prime Minister Singh said that India was ready to discuss all issues with Pakistan, including all outstanding issues.
Prime Minister Singh reiterated India's interest in a stable, democratic Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Both leaders agreed that the real challenge is development and the elimination of poverty. Both leaders are resolved to eliminate those factors which prevent our countries from realising their full potential. Both agreed to work to create an atmosphere of mutual trust and confidence.
Both leaders reaffirmed their intention to promote regional cooperation.
Both foreign secretaries should meet as often as necessary and report to the two foreign ministers, who will be meeting on the sidelines of the forthcoming U.N. General Assembly.
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India acts on Pakistan NSA’s tip-off, 3 terrorists killed: MHA official
The target of the three terrorists, who were killed in a western state, was the Somnath Temple in Saurashtra on the west coast.
By:
Express News Service
New Delhi Updated: Mar 16, 2016, 8:32
By:
Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: March 16, 2016 8:32 am
A high alert was sounded in Gujarat after Pakistan National Security Adviser (NSA) Nasir Khan Janjua communicated to his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval about the terrorist infiltration.
Acting on an unprecedented alert from Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Naseer Khan Janjua, India has “neutralised” three of the 10 terrorists suspected to have crossed the border to carry out an attack in Gujarat during Maha Shivratri, said a top Home Ministry official.
Revealing that the target of the three terrorists, who were killed in “a western state” on Friday, was the Somnath Temple in Saurashtra on the west coast, the official said no further information could be shared as operations were underway to track the other seven.
Sources said the terrorists, who are suspected to have infiltrated through the sea route, could belong to the
Lashkar-e-Taiba or the Jaish-e-Mohammed, and could include men from a third country in the neighbourhood.
As reported first by
The Indian Express, Janjua had warned his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval on March 5 of a possible 26/11-style fidayeen assault on religious sites and processions in Gujarat during the Maha Shivratri celebrations. The tip-off led authorities to order a massive mobilisation of state police, rush four National Security Guard teams to Gujarat and sound a multi-city alert.
The Centre also issued an advisory to Gujarat and other states to beef up security at sensitive locations such as places of worship and vital installations.
Fears of an attack in Gujarat had been mounting over the last four months with the discovery of five abandoned fishing boats in Harami Nullah, a channel along the India-Pakistan border. The fifth boat was discovered by the Border Security Force (BSF) just last month. BSF officials, however, believe the boats were most likely used by traffickers
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Pakistan NSA warned Ajit Doval of 26/11-type hit on Maha Shivratri
The national capital was on high alert and security was beefed up at vital installations, important buildings and crowded places after Delhi Police received inputs about a potential terror strike in the city by 10 suspected LeT and JeM militants who are learnt to have entered India through Gujarat.
Written by
Praveen Swami
New Delhi Updated: Mar 7, 2016, 2:45
Written by
Praveen Swami | New Delhi | Updated: March 7, 2016 2:45 am
A high alert was also sounded in Gujarat after Pakistan National Security Adviser (NSA) Nasir Khan Janjua communicated to his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval about the terrorist infiltration.
Intelligence provided by Pakistan’s National Security Advisor of a possible 26/11-style fidayeen assault on religious sites and processions in Gujarat during Maha Shivratri celebrations on Monday and Tuesday led authorities to order a massive mobilisation of state police personnel and National Security Guard (NSG) units, a top government official familiar with the matter has told
The Indian Express.
The unprecedented intelligence warning did not contain specific details on the jihadist group involved, or information that could lead police to perpetrators, the source said. However, he said “there was enough credible sourcing for the matter to be taken very seriously”.
Lieutenant-General Naseer Janjua conveyed the warning to his Indian counterpart, Ajit Doval, on Saturday, following which NSG special forces were deployed to Gujarat to back up state police.
India, a diplomat said, believes the intelligence was provided “to pre-empt a potential crisis in bilateral relations, even war”. “Lots of pressure has been mounted by India and the United States, and perhaps it is paying off,” said the source.
Jihadist blogs in Pakistan, interestingly, have been speculating for several weeks that India and Pakistan have been sharing intelligence to target al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, with one article even alleging that Janjua conveyed information that allowed India to shut down a terror cell in December.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s foreign affairs advisor, Sartaj Aziz, also admitted that one of the three phone numbers used by the terrorists who attacked the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot had been traced to the Jaish-e-Muhammad’s headquarters in Bahawalpur.
However, although Pakistan has shut down
Facebook pages and websites linked to the Jaish, the Bahawalpur seminary remains open. None of the organisation’s key officials are known to have been arrested either.
Fears of an attack in Gujarat have been mounting over the last four months, sparked by the discovery of five abandoned fishing boats in Harami Nullah, a channel that snakes along the India-Pakistan border before emptying into the Vianbari Creek. The fifth boat was discovered by the Border Security Force (BSF) just last month.
BSF officials believe the boats were most likely used by traffickers, rather than terrorists, but noted that their movement across the border without detection raised fears about security.
The BSF’s border surveillance operations, one officer said, has been severely hampered by the lack of air support, after the sole helicopter available crashed in Rajasthan.
Islamabad’s decision to pass on the intelligence emerged from multiple rounds of meetings between Doval and Janjua, after they first met in Paris last November. The two agreed, at a meeting in Bangkok the next month, to resume diplomatic engagement between the two countries, but continued to maintain a one-to-one channel on terrorism-related issues.
The intelligence on the possible attack in Gujarat is just the second exchange of its kind between the two countries, coming over a decade after India’s Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) passed on the contents of intercepted phone calls warning of a December 15, 2003 assassination attempt on Pakistan’s then President, General Pervez Musharraf.
In the summer of 2003, then R&AW chief C D Sahay and his counterpart at the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, Lieutenant-General Ehsan-ul-Haq, were tasked with working out a deal to restore peace on the Line of Control, by addressing India’s concerns on cross-border infiltration into Jammu and
Kashmir.
The dialogue was ordered by then Prime Minister A B Vajpayee and General Pervez Musharraf, when they decided to resume diplomatic engagement in the wake of the 2001-2002 military crisis.
Haq and Sahay met several times in third countries, hammering out the contours of the unwritten ceasefire that went into place on the LoC in December 2003, allowing India to fence-off infiltration routes.
Less than a fortnight before that ceasefire, breakaway Jaish-e-Muhammad operatives attempted to assassinate Musharraf by detonating a bomb as he crossed the Nullah Lai outside Rawalpindi. R&AW passed on intercepted telephone communication predicting the attack, said a highly-placed source.
Haq later called up Sahay to pass on a message of thanks from Musharraf, according to the source.
Later, in 2006, the two countries set up a Joint Anti-Terrorism Institutional Mechanism to “implement counter-terrorism initiatives and investigations”. However, the mechanism did not result in any sharing of usable intelligence or prosecutions, and collapsed after the 26/11 attacks.
Following 26/11, Pakistan’s then President Asif Ali Zardari called for the creation of a system to ensure “timely information and intelligence sharing between the two counties to prevent any incident of terrorism”. His call was later backed by former intelligence chiefs from both countries.
Even earlier, the two governments used secret channels in attempts to resolve tensions. In 1987, then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi despatched then R&AW chief A K Verma to a secret meeting in Switzerland with his Pakistani counterpart, Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul. The two men discussed means to defuse the risk of war caused by Pakistani support to the Khalistan insurgency
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. What ever anyone do now India is in position to deal Kashmir in far efficient way as it was in 90's . I am sure Kashmiris know that a country who cant save their own citizens from drones can do nothing for them 
