South Asian Newsline Update

SAN-EPISODE # 2840 DATED 02 DECEMBER 2008 WELCOME TO SOUTH ASIA NEWS LINE. I AM ARJUN CHAUDHARI WITH THE DAY’S NEWS….. THE TOP STORIES … HEADLINES INDIA NOT CONSIDERING MILITARY ACTION AGAINST PAKISTAN ISLAMABAD HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING TO DEAL WITH GROUPS OPERATING AGAINST INDIA, SAY SECURITY EXPERTS AND ……MUMBAIKARS SAY THE ATTACKS WILL NOT DAMPEN THE CITY’S DYNAMIC SPIRIT PTC 1: INDIA HAS DEMANDED PAKISTAN TO HAND OVER ABOUT 20 FUGITIVES, FOREIGN MINISTER PRANAB MUKHERJEE SAID, AS NEW DELHI STEPPED UP PRESSURE ON ITS NEIGHBOR IN THE WAKE OF MUMBAI ATTACKS. ISLAMABAD HAS SAID IT WOULD "FRAME A RESPONSE" TO AN INDIAN DEMAND TO HAND OVER ITS MOST WANTED CRIMINALS. VO1: Mukherjee said the names were given to Pakistan's High Commissioner to India when he was summoned on Monday evening to be served with a strongly worded demarche. UPSOUND/ PRANAB MUKHERJEE Foreign Minister, India TRANSLATION: We have asked the handover and arrest of those person who are settled in Pakistan and who are fugitives of Indian law therefore there are a list of about 20 persons, lists are sometimes altered these exercise is going and we have review in our demarche we will await response from Pakistan. VO2: Mukherjee also said India was not considering military action in response to attacks in Mumbai. At a news conference with British Foreign Secretary David Mililand in London, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has asked Islamabad to extend full cooperation in the investigations. UPSOUND/ CONDOLEEZZA RICE Secretary of State, U.S. TRANSCRIPTION: Obviously this is a time when everyone in the civilized world needs to united not just in condemnation of these terrorist attacks, but also in a commitment to be decisive in following up whatever leads there are, in making certain that the people who perpetrated these attacks are brought to justice. VO3: Rice also said Pakistan’s response to the attacks will be a test of the will of the new civilian gove...