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Pakistan holds crisis talks after Mumbai atrocity

Islamabad pledges action if any Pak group involved

Afp, Islamabad
Pakistan's cabinet was holding crisis talks yesterday to discuss a response to the Mumbai attacks after Islamabad reversed a decision to send the head of military intelligence to India.
Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told a press conference Saturday that Pakistan will take action against any group within its borders if it was involved in the Mumbai attacks.
"Any entity or group involved In the ghastly act, the Pakistani government will proceed against it," he told reporters in a televised pressconference.
He was briefing reporters after Pakistan's cabinet held crisis talks about growing tensions over Indian accusations that attackers originated in Pakistan
Qureshi stressed that no one in India's government had directly pointed the finger of responsibility for the attacks at Pakistan.
"They are suspecting groups that could have presence here,” he said.
"What we have said is if they have information, if they have evidence, they should share it with us."
"We are a responsible nation and a responsible neighbour and we will behave and act responsibly,” he said.
The powerful chief of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency had been due to fly to Mumbai to help the investigation, amid Indian allegations of Pakistani involvement in the terror attacks that claimed 195 lives.
" Die special session of the cabinet will take stock of the situation arising out of the allegations by India and the change in level of ISI participation into the probe," a government official told AFP
Prime Minister Yousuf Haza Gilani rushed to Islamabad from the eastern city of Lahore late Friday to chair the special cabinet meeting and his foreign minister cut short a visit to India and returned home
by special plane.
The meeting comes after an abrunt change of plan by Islamabad, saying it send only a representative of the ISI tr not?s head’ ^tenant Genera! Ahmed Shuja Pasha.
No explanation was given in a short s^ement issued by the pnme minister s office for the change of plan. The chief was to have gone at the request of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
However, government sources here said the change came after reservations in top military circles over the unprecedented move.
"The military leadership was not consulted before an announcement was made to the media regarding the decision to send the ISI chief to India," a senior government official said.
Before the government U-tum, chief army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas had told AFP that the decision to send the ISI chief had not been conveyed officially to the army.