It has questioned the contention that Hafiz Saeed was the architect of the Mumbai terrorist attacks in 2008 and firmly ruled out any sanctions on Pakistan for promoting terrorism. Further, the US has obliquely warned India in public - and more directly in private - about the possibility of a terrorist attack from across the border in Pakistan. Toner: You are saying this (Saeed) is one of the architects of the Mumbai attack? The public expression of these fears at the state department briefing was very circumspect. In intelligence parlance these days, "incident" is code for a terrorist attack.

Source: The Telegraph September 15, 2016 21:11 UTC