The ULFA spokesman termed the allegation part of conspiracy by the army to carry out subversion in the state and blame it on ULFA.
The Bharatiya Janata Party demanded legislation to regulate the functioning of Madrassas.
Pak Army officers write to Musharraf on the sacking of CJ issue.
R P Singh, who was court-martialed in 2005, did not give any evidence to back his claims.
The Delhi Police on Tuesday said it has foiled a major terror plan during the festival season with the arrest of a 40-year-old Pakistani terrorist who has Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) links and had been living in India for over 10 years under a fake identity.
Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence has been trying to engineer trouble in Punjab for the last twenty years, former director general of Punjab Police Kanwar Pal Singh Gill told rediff.com in an exclusive interview on Monday. I am surprised that the bomb attack has come late. Knowing the Punjab militants, I was expecting it soon after the judgement about former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's murder case," he said.
Pakistan said Tolu TV had made such claims against Pakistan in the past attributing them to some Afghan officials, which were later denied
On January 1 in 2018, violence erupted at an event to mark 100 years of the Bhima-Koregaon battle, leaving one dead and several injured, including 10 policemen.
Murli Manohar Joshi on Friday squarely held the Inter-Services Intelligence responsible for the Ayodhya attack, while BJP president Lal Kishenchand Advani avoided any reference to the neighbouring country during his visit to Ayodhya.
State-run PTV quoted the Inter-Services Public Relations as saying that Kiyani will take up his new assignment once the President, who is seeking re-election in the October 6 ballot, gives up his uniform.
After his pledge to the Supreme Court to quit as army chief if re-elected as president, Pervez Musharraf on Friday carried out a major reshuffle of top Pakistan army commanders and appointed a new Inter Services Intelligence chief.
Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban leader freed from a Pakistani jail on the request of the US less than three years ago, has emerged as an "undisputed victor" of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, according to a British media report.
Faisal Sheikh, a prime accused in the July 11 train bombings in Mumbai, has confessed to police that he had gone to Pakistan in 2002 and attended a training camp near Muzaffarabad.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled that the Inter Services Intelligence is not a law enforcement agency or a customs authority and cannot take anyone into custody under the country's laws.
Four suspected Inter-Services Intelligence agents were on Sunday picked up by the police near L R Pally village of Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh.
Sharp shooter Asgar Ali and four persons arrested from Hyderabad, four agents of the Pakistan-based Inter-Services Intelligence and three persons from Ahmedabad, who were arrested by the city crime branch, were booked under the act.
"The role of external forces in the insurgency is obvious given that top ULFA leaders are sitting in Bangladesh, thanks to the ISI and DGFI."
According to police sources in Hyderabad, Quadri, who runs a watch repair shop, was in constant touch with Shahed alias Bilal, the alleged mastermind behind the masjid blasts.
During the raid, some incriminating documents and audiocassettes, containing speeches of extremists, were recovered from him, police added.
The arrest of two armymen on the charge of spying for Pakistan has set off an alarm in the government with Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee saying on Monday that the Inter-Services Intelligence is trying to infiltrate and subvert the armed forces.
Al Qaeda not only looks upon India as a close associate of the US similar to the UK, but also as providing favourable conditions for its overseas operations directed against US nationals and interests in Indian territory.
STF sleuths recovered one AK-47 rifle, a Chinese pistol, about 9 kg of RDX, besides a large quantity of ammunition from their possession.
Mulford said the US and India were together in fight against terrorism and that Washington had offered its services in investigations into the Mumbai bombings, particularly in forensic examinations.
Minister of State for Information Tariq Azim said Pakistan would take action if India provides evidence connected to Mumbai blasts. It will depend very much on what proof India provided, he told BBC.
The Pakistan Foreign Office had immediately rejected Mumbai Police's claim, which, it said, was "unsubstantiated" and "baseless".
While the Pakistan Foreign Office was yet to react, Minister of State for Information Tariq Azam rejected the claim and said India could provide any evidence it has and that Pakistan will investigate it.
The conspiracy was hatched in Mumbai and adjoining areas after taking training in Bahawalpur in Pakistan.
He entered India through Bangladesh from where he went to Kolkata and Mumbai before reaching Lucknow to get his passport and other documents.
The details of the telephonic conversation between the militants and ISI officials came to light earlier this week during a raid by Intelligence Bureau sleuths.
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister said, chapter 12 of Fulcrum of evil: ISI, CIA and Al Quaeda nexus by former joint director of IB Moloy Krishna Dhar claiming his links with ISI, is not true.
Khan said his assassination plot was aimed at bringing forward the Islamists like Maulana Maudoodi, the founder of radical religious-political outfit Jamaat-e-Islami.
Rajasthan police arrested a man in Jaipur on Monday for allegedly working as an agent of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence.
Cut off from the world and having to contend with an orthodox and repressive Taliban government, Afghans are facing the brunt of Pakistan's decades old policy of nurturing militant groups, note Harsh V Pant and Kriti M Shah four months after the Taliban took Kabul.
The minister told Telegu Desam Party member C Ramachandraiah that "if the terrorists are against India today, they are equally against Pakistani establishment." \n\n
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