Won't let non-state actors dictate agenda: Zardari

Islamabad: Once again blaming non-state actors for the Mumbai mayhem, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has said they would not be permitted to dictate their agenda and rewrite the sub-continent's foreign policy.
"He said that non state actors responsible for the Mumbai blasts wanted to dictate their own agenda and rewrite the foreign policies of Pakistan and India which would not be permitted," Dawn News channel reported Saturday.
Zardari was speaking at a reception in North West Frontier Province capital Peshawar Friday night that provincial ministers and senior government officials, among others, attended.Zardari has often said in the past that non-state actors were responsible for the Mumbai carnage and that it was Pakistan's responsibility to act against them.
"Yes, definitely. I do not shrug away from that position," he told Newsweek magazine in December, adding: "Anybody from my soil is my responsibility." However, the only action that Islamabad has taken is to seal the offices of the Jamaat-ud Daawa, the morphed version of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group that India has blamed for the Nov 26-29 Mumbai carnage that claimed the lives of more than 170 people, including 26 foreigners, and injured over 300. India had Jan 5 had given Islamabad a detailed dossier pointing to the involvement of elements from Pakistan in the attacks.
On Saturday, there were reports that the results of Islamabad's probe into the Mumbai attacks would now be handed over to Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. According to the reports, Pakistan's law and interior ministries had vetted the results of the probe by the Federal Investigation Agency on the basis of the Indian dossier.
The results of the probe would now be sent to the prime minister, who is likely to hand it over to Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Satyabrata Pal, the reports added. On its part, India Saturday asked Pakistan to honour its commitments on prosecuting the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks.
"Everyone knows which organisations were involved (in the Mumbai carnage). It is for Pakistan to honour not only the assurances and commitments it has given to the international community and to India, but Pakistan as a nation state must also respect the international law," Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma told reporters in New Delhi.
"The entire world is watching Pakistan and by obfuscating and deflecting, Pakistan can only hit its low credibility," Sharma added.