Click to play videoNew Delhi: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari categorically denies any link between Pakistan's intelligence agencies and the Lashkar-e-Toiba. Zardari said, "There is no supportive interaction with our intelligence and the Lashkar-e-Toiba, which has been banned."
Newsweek reports in the interview that Pakistani President Zardari is in the hot seat. It adds that under pressure from the international community, Zardari ordered police last week to crack down on Jamaat-ul-Dawa, a charity thought to be the public front for Lashkar-e-Toiba, the Pakistani terrorist group that India blames for the November 26 attacks in Mumbai.
President Zardari spoke with Newsweek's journalist Lally Weymouth just before the Jamaat arrests.
Newsweek said, "The problem is that long before you came to office, Lashkar-e-Toiba was used in Kashmir by the Pakistani Army to fight India."
To that Zardari said, "That may have been the situation then, but things have changed. Lashkar-e-Toiba has been banned. Of course, these nonstate actors keep re-emerging in different forms. Whenever there is actionable intelligence, we move in before anyone else does."
When asked if he thinks Indian Muslims could be behind the Mumbai attacks, Zardari said, "I am not pointing fingers as I want to improve my relations with India. I want to be a friend of India and a friend of the world and (a foe of terrorism) because I am a victim myself."
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