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India says peace process with Pakistan ‘under stress’

NEW DELHI (AFP) — India on Monday said its peace process with Pakistan was “under stress,” repeating allegations that “elements” in Islamabad were behind this month’s suicide attack against its Kabul embassy.

But a Pakistani diplomat in India for peace talks angrily rejected the claims, and challenged India to provide evidence to back up the accusation.

Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon said the attack on the Kabul embassy which left dozens dead, including India’s military attaché and a diplomat, had strained relations between the two countries, but that talks should continue.

“All our information… points to elements in Pakistan being behind the blast,” Menon told reporters in New Delhi.

“The dialogue process is stressed, and it will certainly affect our relations with Pakistan,” the foreign secretary said after talks with his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir as part of the peace process the two nuclear-armed rivals launched in 2004.

But he added: “We consider it important that the dialogue process should continue.”

In a separate news conference in New Delhi, the visiting Pakistani secretary rejected Menon’s comments on the peace process and strongly denied Pakistan was involved in the embassy bombing.

“We must refrain from this blame-game which we have played too long and it has got us nowhere,” Bashir said

“If they share this intelligence we will ally any misgivings they have, but it’s wrong to point fingers without evidence.”

He said Pakistan was “engaged in the fight against terrorism in a serious manner.”

Bashir said Islamabad was committed to strengthening the bumpy peace process, which stalled in 2006 after of a series of bomb blasts on commuter trains in India’s commercial capital Mumbai in which 186 people were killed — an attack also blamed on Islamabad.

Ties between the South Asian rivals had improved since 2004 with increased political, tourist, sporting and cultural exchanges.

Leaders of the rival nations — Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf — later agreed to resume the process after constituting an anti-terror panel comprising foreign and interior ministry officials from both sides.

Menon said Monday’s talks had come at a “difficult time” in India’s relationship with Pakistan.

“In the recent past, several events have vitiated the atmosphere,” he said.

“Incidents on the Line of Control (in Kashmir), incitement of violence, some (Pakistani) leaders reverting to the old polemics — and this sequence of events culminated in the suicide attack on our embassy in Kabul.”

New Delhi accuses Islamabad of backing Islamic militants who are waging an insurgency in the disputed Kashmir, which has triggered two of their three wars since 1947.

Nevertheless, Menon said Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had telephoned his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday and the two had agreed to meet in Colombo on the sidelines of a South Asian regional summit starting August 2.