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'Pakistan is epicentre of terrorism': Indian PM
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calls Pakistan the 'epicenter of terrorism'; while Pakistan seeks credible information on the Mumbai attacks.
- Agencies
- Published: 09:36 December 12, 2008
- Image Credit: Gulf News
- Nine of the gunmen who carried out the attacks were killed in Mumbai and a 10th was arrested.
New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called Pakistan the 'epicentre of terrorism', while Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi asked for more credible evidence on the Mumbai attacks.
“The finger of suspicion unmistakably points to the territory of our neighbor, Pakistan,'' India's Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told the parliament.
"The origins of the 10 terrorists who entered India have been established conclusively", he said
Meanwhile, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said India had provided no “evidence or information'' the Mumbai gunmen came from Pakistan.
“Our own investigations cannot proceed beyond a certain point without provision of credible information,'' he said in a statement on Friday.
Rather, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told members of Parliament that it would take time for India to turn off the tap of support for militant groups operating across the border, and that war was “no solution.''
“We shall have to patiently confront it,'' he said. “We have no intention to be provoked.''
Mr. Mukherjee said that he had no “quarrel'' with the administration of President Asif Ali Zardari in Pakistan but pressed him to do more to dismantle support for militants.
The gunmen who carried out the three-day siege of Mumbai, India's financial capital, killed 171 people. Nine of the gunmen were killed and a 10th was arrested.
The Mumbai police said all of the attackers were Pakistani citizens who traveled across the Arabian Sea to Mumbai, formerly Bombay. They are believed to have belonged to a Pakistan-based group called Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is officially banned in Pakistan.
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