New Delhi: Pakistan on Tuesday rejected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's accusation that November's Mumbai attacks must have had support from some official Pakistani agencies.
"The government of Pakistan emphatically rejects the unfortunate allegations levelled against Pakistan by the prime minister of India," the Pakistan Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "Instead of responding positively to Pakistan's offer of cooperation and constructive proposals, India has chosen to embark on a propaganda offensive," it said.
The statement came after Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said that the details of the Mumbai attacks provided by India cannot be treated as evidence.
"The details provided by India are mere information and cannot be treated as evidence or help in the investigations," Bashir told the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Bashir’s statement contradicts Pakistan’s High Commissioner Shahid Malik said in Delhi. "We have been given some material. We are examining it. There is no question of rejection or otherwise," said Malik in Delhi.
Pakistan’s Information Minister Sherry Rehman, too, told CNN-IBN that the evidence India has provided is being examined and action should be taken against those who carried out the Mumbai attacks.
Singh on Tuesday alleged Pakistani authorities "must have had" a hand in the Mumbai attacks of November 2008. "There is enough evidence to show that, given the sophistication and military precision of the attack, it must have had the support of some official agencies in Pakistan," he told a conference of Chief Ministers and police chiefs on national security.
(With inputs from IANS and Reuters.)
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