12-Oct-2008
Story Timeline: 53 days
Rattled by a wave of suicide bombings, the Pakistan government has said that such attacks were perpetrated by people from within the country and not by Indians or Americans, a rare candid statement from authorities. Those carrying out terrorist attacks in Pakistan are neither Indians nor Americans, Interior Ministry chief Advisor Rehman Malik told a seminar organised in Lahore [Images] on Saturday by a society affiliated to the influential 'Jang Group of Newspapers'. "Rather, they are our own brethren while those who were urging them to do so were also our own people," Malik was quoted as saying by newspapers. The war on terror would continue "till the last...
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