11.  Students claim to represent the aspirations of the people, but even members of the public who have openly supported the protests have never verified this statement explicitly.

12.  The secretive military wing could not be contacted to verify the statement.

13.  The State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said he could not verify the statement.

14.  There was no way to verify the statement.

15.  There was no way to independently verify the statement, which followed the format of earlier communiques from the group.

16.  There was no way to independently verify the statement.

17.  There was no way to independently verify the statements, though they followed the form of earlier communiques from the groups.

18.  India now wants some form of monitoring mechanism in place to verify recent statements by Pakistan that it has reined in the militants.

19.  But he said an inquiry had been opened to verify his statements.