(29 Nov 2008)
1. Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi arriving at news conference
2. Mid of reporters
3. Wide of Qureshi and officials
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan:
"The government of Pakistan has said that the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan will cooperate, our hands are clean, we have nothing to hide, we have nothing to be ashamed of because this government feels that good neighbourly relations with India are in the interest of Pakistan."
5. Wide of news conference with camera in foreground
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan:
"The situation is serious, let us not fool ourselves, it is a serious situation. When our neighbour, when the people in India who feel that this is 9/11 for India and they are talking about it so it is a serious situation and I think as a responsible elected government we can not be oblivious of the seriousness of the situation."
7. Wide of news conference
8. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan:
"There is a complete harmony between the government and armed forces of Pakistan and we have consultation with each other, there is contact between us and through you. I also want to say we are for peace and our message is love and brotherhood but the people of Pakistan and the armed forces of Pakistan are fully prepared at any time to defend Pakistan."
9. Wide of news conference
10. Wide of exterior of Pakistani Foreign Ministry building (++NIGHT SHOT++)
STORYLINE
Pakistan's foreign minister on Saturday said that his country had nothing to hide and would cooperate in the investigation of the Mumbai attacks.
Speaking at a news conference in Islamabad, Shah Mahmood Qureshi called the situation "serious" and said that good relations with India were in the interest of Pakistan.
Indian officials have linked the attacks to "elements" in Pakistan, raising the prospect of a crisis between the nuclear-armed rivals that has alarmed the US.
Pakistan has withdrawn a pledge to send its spy chief to India to help investigate the Mumbai attacks, but insisted it was committed to fighting the Islamic extremist groups suspected in the carnage.
Earlier, Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's office said that the head of the Inter Services Intelligence agency would go to India at the request of India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh.
However, Pakistani officials said on Saturday that the decision had been changed and that a lower-ranking intelligence official would travel instead.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari blamed the about-face on a "miscommunication" with India.
He said Singh had asked only that a "director" of the agency - not the chief - go to India to share intelligence.
However, the revision followed sharp criticism from some Pakistani opposition politicians and a cool response from the army, which controls the agency.
India has repeatedly accused Pakistan of complicity in attacks on its soil, many of which it traces to militant groups fighting Indian rule in the divided Himalayan territory of Kashmir.
Infiltration into Indian administered Kashmir from Pakistan has eased in recent years under US pressure, and relations have improved markedly under a peace process begun in 2004.
But ties nose-dived again in July when India accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency of involvement in the bombing of its embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
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