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NEW DELHI India has shared with the United States what it says is evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the deadly Mumbai train bombings, a news report said Saturday.
Indian officials have accused Pakistan's spy agency, Inter Services Intelligence, of working with the militant group Lashkar e-Tayyaba to carry out the July 11 bombings, which killed more than 200 people.
"We had discussions on the evidence and other aspects of the incident," the Hindustan Times newspaper quoted U.S. Ambassador David Mulford as saying.
The report said Mulford declined to give further details. Officials at the U.S. Embassy could not be immediately reached for comment.
Last week Mumbai Police Commissioner A.N. Roy said investigations had revealed the terror plot was sponsored by ISI and executed by Pakistan-based Lashkar e-Tayyaba operatives with help from the outlawed Students' Islamic Movement of India.
Roy said Pakistani intelligence agents began planning the attacks in March, and later provided funding and training for the bombers in the Pakistani town of Bahawalpur, a center of militant Muslim activity.
Pakistan has dismissed the accusations and demanded proof from India.
New Delhi has said it would share the evidence with Pakistan's government as well.
India accuses Pakistan of funding and training militants who have been fighting to drive India from its portion of divided Kashmir. Pakistan denies the charge and says it supports the rebels' cause in principle but gives no material help.
Kashmir is split between India and Pakistan, but both claim the Himalayan region in its entirety. The Islamic insurgency in India's only Muslim-majority state has claimed more than 68,000 lives since it began in 1989.
On Saturday, Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon told reporters that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh planned to raise the issue of terrorism with leaders of the European Union during next week's India-EU summit.
NEW DELHI India has shared with the United States what it says is evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the deadly Mumbai train bombings, a news report said Saturday.
Indian officials have accused Pakistan's spy agency, Inter Services Intelligence, of working with the militant group Lashkar e-Tayyaba to carry out the July 11 bombings, which killed more than 200 people.
"We had discussions on the evidence and other aspects of the incident," the Hindustan Times newspaper quoted U.S. Ambassador David Mulford as saying.
The report said Mulford declined to give further details. Officials at the U.S. Embassy could not be immediately reached for comment.
Last week Mumbai Police Commissioner A.N. Roy said investigations had revealed the terror plot was sponsored by ISI and executed by Pakistan-based Lashkar e-Tayyaba operatives with help from the outlawed Students' Islamic Movement of India.
Roy said Pakistani intelligence agents began planning the attacks in March, and later provided funding and training for the bombers in the Pakistani town of Bahawalpur, a center of militant Muslim activity.
Pakistan has dismissed the accusations and demanded proof from India.
New Delhi has said it would share the evidence with Pakistan's government as well.
India accuses Pakistan of funding and training militants who have been fighting to drive India from its portion of divided Kashmir. Pakistan denies the charge and says it supports the rebels' cause in principle but gives no material help.
Kashmir is split between India and Pakistan, but both claim the Himalayan region in its entirety. The Islamic insurgency in India's only Muslim-majority state has claimed more than 68,000 lives since it began in 1989.
On Saturday, Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon told reporters that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh planned to raise the issue of terrorism with leaders of the European Union during next week's India-EU summit.
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