Pakistan ready to help Indian blast probe if needed

[Owais]

Pakistan ready to help Indian blast probe if needed :army: :flag:

ISLAMABAD (updated on: July 13, 2006, 18:08 PST): Pakistan said on Thursday it was ready to help India's investigation into the Mumbai bomb blasts that killed 186 people and rejected Indian accusations that an 'infrastructure of terrorism' existed on Pakistani soil.

'Pakistan stands ready along with the international community to help India's investigation, because terrorism is a global problem,' Tasnim Aslam, Ministry spokeswoman, told Reuters.

She said such help would be unconditional and in no way dependent on a resolution of Pakistan's dispute with India over Kashmir.

President Pervez Musharraf made a similar offer to share information to help Indian investigators in the aftermath of a series of bomb blasts that killed 69 people in New Delhi last October.

Aslam's comments came after India reacted angrily to misquoted remarks by Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri in Washington that New Delhi said suggested that Pakistan would cooperate with India on terrorism only if outstanding disputes were resolved.

Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna on Wednesday also urged Pakistan to take steps to dismantle an "infrastructure of terrorism" on its soil.

Pakistan's Aslam said the accusation was "baseless".

The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan are due to meet in New Delhi on July 20 to discuss confidence-building measures between the neighbours.

 

[Awesome]

I doubt they'd accept it.

They need to project Pakistan as an enemy here. At best they'd hand over demands and never enlist Pakistani help. More than getting the culprits caught they want to avoid spreading the image that Pakistan may not be responsible for this.