Pak terms India's accusations ''rehash of baseless allegations''

New Delhi, July 21 (UNI) Pakistan today rejected accusations that it was involved in the Mumbai blasts, calling India's response to President Pervez Musharraf's offer to help in investigations a ''rehash of baseless allegations.'' ''The fact that after ten days of the Mumbai blasts, the Indian spokesman has little to say other than to mention Daud Ibrahim or Hizbul Mujahideen Chief demonstrates that there was nothing to warrant the irresponsible act of finger-pointing at Pakistan immediately after the attack,'' release from the Pakistan High Commission here said, adding such allegations had ''become a routine with India.'' On earlier occasions, similar Indian accusations were belied by independent enquiries such as in the case of Chittisinghpura incident of March 2000 and the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament which exposed involvement of elements internal to India.

Commenting on India's allegations as regards the terror camps in PoK or the presence of wanted fugitives in Pakistan, as borne in the list both sides exchanged after the resumption of the Composite Dialogue in 2004, it noted that India's list included ''persons who are either not in Pakistan or some of those who had been associated with the Kashmiri issue.'' ''Similarly repetition of familiar conjectures and allegations about training camps and infrastructure does not lend them any credence. The fact that there is no terrorist infrastructure in Azad Kashmir became fully known to the international community with the opening of the entire area along the LoC to international NGOs and relief teams as well as NATO and other foreign contingents after the October earthquake,'' it claimed.

Alleging that it had yet to get any response from the Indian side, it said that to link these lists, which have been exchanged every year, ''to our serious offer to help with investigations of Mumbai terrorist attack establishes the paucity of substance in Indian allegations.'' UNI AK HT2348