By IANS
Islamabad : Pakistan has condemned the terror bombings in Hyderabad in India but termed as “conjecture” attempts by Indian authorities to pin the blame on the country for the blasts in which 43 people were killed.
Speaking at her weekly news briefing Monday, Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam termed the attacks as terrorist acts, but cautioned Indian authorities against pointing fingers without investigating the attacks, the Dawn newspaper said.
Aslam said: “I do not want to comment on conjectures. It is always better to investigate incidents of terrorism than to start speculating.”
“These are terrorist attacks and we condemn them. We are ourselves victim of terrorism and remain committed to fight terrorism,” Aslam said.
Her comments came amid suspicion among intelligence agencies in India that Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad terror groups could be responsible for the blasts.
Commenting on the next meeting of the Joint Pakistan-India Anti Terrorism Mechanism which was supposed to meet on quarterly basis but had not met after its first meeting in March, Aslam said no schedule for the meeting had been finalised yet.
“We are expecting the officer who will take over as UN additional secretary to arrive shortly. Once he is there then perhaps the two additional secretaries can get in touch and decide the dates,” she added
To a question about the Indian commerce minister’s statement that New Delhi was awaiting Pakistan’s response on the proposals made on trade across the LoC, Aslam said: “I think there have been some discussions and we believe that we are moving in the direction of opening the LoC for trade for Kashmiris and the truck service.”
She termed as “speculative and fabricated” a report in the Newsweek magazine about alleged understanding that allows the US troops to operate inside Pakistan.
Aslam said: “No such understanding with the US exists. The parameters of Pakistan’s cooperation with the US and Nato are clear to everyone including the Nato forces across the border and the US Administration. These parameters of cooperation are limited to intelligence sharing and coordination.”
The spokesperson said any operation to be conducted inside Pakistani territory based on actionable intelligence was Pakistan government’s responsibility.