ISLAMABAD, July 13: Pakistan said on Thursday it was ready to help India’s investigation into the Mumbai bomb blasts and rejected Indian accusations that an “infrastructure of terrorism” existed on Pakistani soil.
“Pakistan stands ready ... to help India’s investigation, because terrorism is a global problem,” Tasnim Aslam, Pakistan’s Foreign 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 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 to 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.
