By
Asif Farooqi, IOL Pakistan Correspondent
ISLSMABAD,
Aug 6 (IslamOnline) - Pakistan Tuesday, August 6, 2002, rejected
Indian allegations of its involvement in a terrorist attack in Indian
held Kashmir which resulted in the death of nine pilgrims early
Tuesday.
"We
condemn the terrorist attack on Hindu pilgrims" the Foreign
Office said in a statement issued here Tuesday afternoon following
allegations from Indian junior minister I D Swami that Pakistan was
behind the killing of nine pilgrims.
"The
government rejects with contempt", the statement said of the
remarks made by the Indian Junior Home Minister who earlier said in
Delhi that Pakistan was behind this attack as it wanted to influence
the state election in Kashmir, due in September this year.
A
Muslim separatists group Al-Mansourian was blamed for the early
morning ambush in the Indian Kashmir. Al Mansouri is the new title for
Lashkare e Taiab which re-named itself after being banned by the
United States for its alleged involvement in terrorist activities in
Kashmir. Lashkar had its offices in Pakistan till late last year when
it was banned by the military regime. It is one of two groups India
says was behind an attack on its parliament last December. ends...
The
Hindu pilgrims were attacked Tuesday morning, while they were sleeping
at a camp on their way to a shrine in the foothills of the Himalayas
