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Qureshi urges India not to get sucked into blame game
Updated at: 2150 PST, Friday, November 28, 2008
NEW DELHI: Pakistan's foreign minister asked India on Friday not to get sucked into a blame game over the Mumbai attacks and drag relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours back into the deep freeze.
Speaking in New Delhi, where he was on a four-day official visit, Shah Mehmood Qureshi condemned the multiple assaults on India's financial capital, calling the militants "barbaric animals". He also urged the need to immediately activate the joint anti-terrorism mechanism to deal with terrorism activities taking place in both countries.
Pakistani FM said it is a difficult moment for India but there is a need to avoid blame game of the past. We should demonstrate statesmanship to wriggle out of this situation, he added.
Expressing sympathies on behalf of the people and Government of Pakistan to Indian side, he said Pakistan wanted to strengthen institutional arrangement of anti terrorism mechanism by sharing the information.
It had also offered establishing hotlines between Chiefs of Intelligence Agencies and National Security Advisers, as terrorism was not a Pakistans problem only. It is regional and global curse, he added.
Updated at: 2150 PST, Friday, November 28, 2008
NEW DELHI: Pakistan's foreign minister asked India on Friday not to get sucked into a blame game over the Mumbai attacks and drag relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours back into the deep freeze.
Speaking in New Delhi, where he was on a four-day official visit, Shah Mehmood Qureshi condemned the multiple assaults on India's financial capital, calling the militants "barbaric animals". He also urged the need to immediately activate the joint anti-terrorism mechanism to deal with terrorism activities taking place in both countries.
Pakistani FM said it is a difficult moment for India but there is a need to avoid blame game of the past. We should demonstrate statesmanship to wriggle out of this situation, he added.
Expressing sympathies on behalf of the people and Government of Pakistan to Indian side, he said Pakistan wanted to strengthen institutional arrangement of anti terrorism mechanism by sharing the information.
It had also offered establishing hotlines between Chiefs of Intelligence Agencies and National Security Advisers, as terrorism was not a Pakistans problem only. It is regional and global curse, he added.
