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Gilani offers to probe embassy attack

B. Muralidhar Reddy and Sandeep Dikshit

“Will do everything to put India-Pakistan dialogue process back on track”

COLOMBO: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday assured his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh that Islamabad would independently investigate the terrorist attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul which killed 60 people, including four Indians.

Mr. Gilani said he would interact with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to “get to the root” of the case. Pakistan would do everything required to put the dialogue process back on track.

Mr. Gilani told Dr. Singh that Islamabad considered the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) the most important confidence building measure in the effort towards improvement of relations. There was consensus among all major political parties in Pakistan on improving relations with India, he said.

Dr. Singh told Mr. Gilani that New Delhi and Islamabad had been working on this goal for the last four years but unfortunately the recent events cast a shadow on the process. The bilateral meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the SAARC summit, was the first between the two and came amid heightened tensions.

Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon said Dr. Singh was “frank” in expressing concern over the recent events.

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