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Pakistan MPs trash Indian claims on Mumbai attacks

AFP, The Dawn. Islamabad
Lawmakers in Pakistan yesterday condemned what they called India's "unsubstantiated" allegations against Islamabad over the Mumbai attacks and called for the neighbours to conduct a joint probe.
Federal MPs also called for an end to "war hype" whipped up between the nuclear-armed South Asian countries following last month's attacks, which New Delhi has blamed on a banned Pakistan-based militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba.
"The National Assembly of Pakistan condemns unsubstantiated allegations levelled in haste against Pakistan," the lawmak ers said in a resolution approved unanimously after a week-long general debate on national security.
The resolution called upon India "to respond to the construe tive proposals made by the government of Pakistan, namely joint investigations and high-level engagement with a view to addressing concerns relating to the Mumbai incident."
Lawmakers said that Pakistan had put forth these proposals "to defuse tensions in South Asia" and expressed their condolences to families of the victims. A total of 172 people were killed, including nine of the attackers.
India says the gunmen were trained and equipped by LeT, which is fighting Indian rule in disputed Kashmir, and travelled to Mumbai on a hijacked trawler from the Pakistani port of Karachi.
They rejected as a cock and bull story this claim by India.
"How was it possible for a group of 10 to split and engage the entire security apparatus of a country for three days," they questioned.
They also questioned the manner in which the United Nations adopted a resolution for sanctions on Jamaatud Dawa, saying the action had been taken at the behest oflndia.
They referred to some reports which claimed that China wanted to block the UN resolution, but it was allegedly persuaded by President Asif Ali Zardari not to do so. The senators asked the government to explain its position.
Leader of the Opposition in Senate, Kamil Ali Agha, expressed concern over the absence of Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN when the resolution was adopted by the Security
Council.
He termed the arrival of an Interpol team to Pakistan alarming and said that the purpose of the visit was to implicate Pakistan in the Mumbai terrorist attacks. He said the US wanted to engage Pakistan on its eastern border to achieve its objectives.
Earlier Pakistani senators on Ttiesday called for a review of Pakistan's role in the 'war on terror' and suggested the redeployment of troops from the country's
Relations between the two countries have deteriorated following the attaclcs, with both sides raising the spectre of war, while at the same time calling for a calming of tensions and an end to empty rhetoric.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday dismissed talk of war with Pakistan, but again demanded that Islamabad do more to crack down on militants blamed for cross-border attacks.
Pakistan’s parliament condemned the "war hype in a situation where war is not an option" as both countries had nuclear weapons - but noted that tiie armed forces would defend the nation at all costs.
The lawmakers urged India to "exercise restraint" and stop "hostile propaganda", which sought to cover what they called New Delhi's "intelligence failure” in relation to the attacks.