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Pakistan will take action against any terrorist group operating against India from its soil and consider a request for extraditing underworld don Dawood Ibrahim if New Delhi provides ‘‘authentic proof’‘ in this regard, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani has said. Gillani said his government could also consider India’s request for access to terrorist leaders like Masood Azhar, who was released in return for safety of passengers of Indian Airlines plane hijacked to Kandahar in 1999, if it is backed by evidence.
Rejecting India’s concerns over terrorism in Kashmir being financed and executed by Pakistan-based groups like Lashker-e-Taiba with the backing of the Inter-Services Intelligence, he said, ‘‘we are already working with the whole world against extremism and terrorism and our point of view is extremely clear that we are against them. We have lost our own leader (former premier) Benazir Bhutto because of (terrorism). How can I deny that? We are fighting against terrorism,’‘ Gillani said in a TV interview.
