tallow and mozzaok - of course all reasonable minded people agree with both of you.
Seems pakistan disagrees.
"THE Pakistan President, Asif Ali Zardari, has risked worsening his nation's stand-off with India by indicating it will not comply with demands to hand over 20 terrorism suspects following the Mumbai attacks.
"If we had the proof we would try them in our courts, we would try them in our land and we would sentence them," he told CNN yesterday.
India says it has evidence the terrorists who killed nearly 200 people in Mumbai last week were from Pakistan. But Mr Zardari labelled them "stateless actors" wanting to hold the world hostage. "The state of Pakistan is in no way responsible," he said.
His refusal to agree to India's request could exacerbate a sharp deterioration in relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours following the Mumbai attacks.
Yesterday the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, arrived in New Delhi to defuse deepening tension in the region.
Speaking on her arrival, Dr Rice said President Zardari had promised her following the Mumbai attack he would "follow the leads wherever they may go".
She refused to comment on whether Pakistan would turn over the fugitives demanded by India but said this was "a time for everybody to cooperate and to do so transparently and this is especially a time for Pakistan to do so".
Dr Rice said both India and Pakistan had a mutual interest in combating terrorists. "These are enemies of Pakistan as well as enemies of India," she said.
Pakistan is under pressure to respond to Indian allegations that militants recruited and trained in Pakistan had carried out the attacks. US intelligence has backed the claims. The US director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, yesterday blamed Lashkar-e-Toiba for involvement without naming the group.
India says one terrorist caught in Mumbai is Pakistani and claims to have other evidence showing the group arrived from Pakistan by sea. But Mr Zardari said his country did not yet have sufficient proof. "We have not been given any tangible proof to say that he is definitely a Pakistani. I very much doubt … that he's a Pakistani," he told CNN.
Hardliners in India have advocated a military response, possibly strikes on terrorist training camps believed to be inside Pakistan...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pakistan-refuses-to-hand-over-suspects/2008/12/...
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