Pakistan reviews Indian ties to terrorism

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Foreign Ministry officials in Islamabad reviewed evidence that India was involved in terrorist attacks in the country, the Pakistani interior minister said.

Ties between New Delhi and Islamabad are complicated by a series of territorial disputes and other disagreements between the two nuclear-armed foes.

New Delhi has expressed concern about the rise in Pakistani militants operating in its territory, a concern exasperated by a series of coordinated attacks on high-profile buildings in Mumbai in November 2008.

Islamabad, meanwhile, blamed New Delhi for a variety of skirmishes inside its borders.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Wednesday that foreign officials in Islamabad were reviewing evidence that New Delhi was behind militant activity in his country, the Pakistani newspaper The Nation reports.

"Pakistan has solid evidence about India's involvement in fomenting unrest in Pakistan and the evidences have been provided to foreign office to take it up with New Delhi," he said.

He added Pakistani military forces had confiscated weapons in the volatile tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan that he said were manufactured in India.

Pakistani forces launched a military operation in the tribal regions in October to take on the Taliban and other extremists holed up in the area.

Source: United Press International (UPI).
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