Pakistan added that it is necessary to establish "veracity of the Indian claim".
Pakistan on Thursday refuted India's assertion that the Inter-Services Intelligence was trying to revive militancy in Punjab saying such statements could hit efforts to normalise bilateral relations.
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday assured Denmark that the perpetrators of the 'wanton act of terrorism' near the Danish Embassy in Islamabad would be brought to justice. Qureshi made the assurance during a phone call to his Danish counterpart Per Stig Moller, said a statement issued by the Foreign Office. The Pakistani minister strongly condemned the attack and termed terrorism a 'scourge that is threatening the whole human society'.
Pakistan on Monday summoned the Indian Deputy High Commissioner and lodged a protest over "unprovoked firing" by Indian troops.
Pakistan said the underworld don lived "somewhere else".
The Pakistan government will continue to facilitate the "early completion of all formalities and hand over the mortal remains of the prisoner to the Indian High Commission at the earliest possible", said a statement from the Foreign Office.
There would be no such bar, however, on goods from Afghanistan being sent to India.
Pakistan will release 367 Indian prisoners next week to send a positive message to its neighbour amid high tension due to firing on the Line of Control, Pakistani sources said on Saturday.
'We called on relevant countries to have dialogue and communication as soon as possible and launch a thorough investigation into this incident, strengthen information sharing and establish a notification mechanism in time to ensure the recurrence of such incidents and prevent miscalculation'
The 'aura of invincibility' around Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been 'shattered' by the Indian voters who gave the Opposition a new lease on life, this is how the international media described the outcome of India's general elections.
The military alliance's 90-day period of stay will end early next year.
Pakistan on Friday said Afghanistan should properly check its facts before making allegations that a plot to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai was hatched on its soil. The Afghan intelligence agency said on Thursday that it had thwarted a plot to assassinate Karzai by arresting a bodyguard and five persons with links to the Haqqani network and the Al Qaeda. Officials said the plot had its origins in Pakistan's Waziristan tribal region.
India should demonstrate "seriousness" in implementing its announcements regarding reducing troops in Jammu and Kashmir as a confidence-building measure, Pakistan's Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said.
Pakistan on Thursday said the government of its Punjab province will file an appeal against the Lahore High Court order releasing banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who was placed under house arrest in December last year, in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks.
Foreign office spokesman Naeem Khan said Sarabjit's family will be issued Visas according to law.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is unlikely to meet his Indian counterpart Dr. Manmohan Singh in Washington, where they are scheduled to attend the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on April 12 and 13.
Taken by surprise when heavily armed men ambushed their convoy but quickly gathering themselves, jawans of the 22 Garhwal regiment fired more than 5,100 rounds to protect their injured colleagues and forced the terrorists to retreat into Kathua's wooded hills, officials said.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf may accept New Delhi's request of clemency on humanitarian grounds for Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row for carrying out multiple bomb explosions in the Islamic nation's Punjab province, in which 14 people were killed in 1990. A Pakistan's Foreign Office (FO) official said the President could consider pardoning Singh. "If that happens, it will be purely on humanitarian grounds," the Nation quoted him as saying.
Pakistan on Tuesday said it did not want to vitiate the 'already tense situation' along the Line of Control by making 'irresponsible statements' in the wake of a string of violations of a nine-year-old ceasefire.
A seven-member Federal Bureau of Investigation team from the US is expected to visit Pakistan next week to follow-up the findings of the probe conducted by authorities in ISlamabad in connection with the Mumbai terror attacks.
India on Tuesday recalled three diplomats stationed at its high commission in Islamabad after their identities were made public and Pakistan charged them with "spying".
Musharraf had, in an interview to a news channel, claimed there was lot of evidence of Indian involvement in Balochistan but he would not like to comment on it.
Pakistan's foreign office spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam said Manmohan Singh had accepted a longstanding invitation to visit Pakistan though he has never committed to any date.
Pakistan foreign office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq said that Pakistan is a 'responsible nuclear state' whose atomic weapons are 'as secure as that of any other nuclear weapon state'. Statements expressing concern about the safety and security of the nuclear arsenal are 'unwarranted and irresponsible'.
Insisting that "war is not an option" in the region, Pakistan today said it is committed to resuming the dialogue process with India as talks are the only way forward to improve the bilateral ties.
Pakistan on Thursday rejected the claim by an American investigative journalist that it was aware about Osama bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad.
Pakistan on Saturday released former Afghan Taliban deputy chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, meeting a long-standing demand of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to advance peace efforts in the war-ravaged country.
A day after National Security Advisor M K Narayanan said India has pretty good evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the Mumbai blasts, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said, "It is a propagandist statement as they have no evidence."
The 2016 SAARC Summit was originally planned to be held in Islamabad on November 15-19, 2016. But after a terror attack on an Indian Army camp in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir on September 18 that year, India expressed its inability to participate in the summit due to "prevailing circumstances". The summit was called off after Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan also declined to participate in the Islamabad meet.
Indian officials said Pakistani fighter jets on Wednesday violated Indian air space in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch and Nowshera sectors but were pushed back by Indian aircraft.
After news about the demise of Pakistan's former president General Pervez Musharraf was confirmed, the country's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday changed his Twitter profile picture to a photograph of his mother Benazir Bhutto and the late Nawab Akbar Bugti, in whose murder the former military ruler was named.
A massive manhunt is underway for three foreign terrorists, possibly of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, responsible for the deadly attack on pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi that resulted in the loss of nine lives, including a two-year-old, officials involved in the investigation said on Monday.
Pakistan on Wednesday said that India had not produced witnesses belonging to the security forces before its Joint Investigation Team on the Pathankot terror attack.
China's new Premier Li Keqiang will arrive in Islamabad next week to meet Pakistan's new leadership to give "further impetus" to the strategic ties between the two 'all-weather' allies.
Kiran Bala, who went to Pakistan to attend the Baisakhi festival, changed her name to Amna Bibi.
We have repeatedly asked India to refrain from accusations, says Pakistan's foreign office
Pakistan's push to secure NSG membership comes at a time when India is also looking to secure membership of the elite grouping.
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