India denies receiving dossier from Pak

New Delhi, July 23 (PTI) India on Wednesday denied
having received any dossier from Pakistan about its alleged
involvement in terrorist acts there, including one on the Sri
Lankan team, a day after media reports in Islamabad claimed
that a dossier was given to New Delhi on the issue.

"We have not received any such dossier," sources in
the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) told PTI here.

The Dawn, a leading Pakistani English daily, had
on Wednesday claimed that Islamabad has handed over to New
Delhi a dossier containing "comprehensive evidence" of Indian
involvement in several terrorist acts on its soil, including
the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in March.

The dossier with proof of "India's involvement in
subversive activities in Pakistan" was handed over by Prime
Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to his Indian counterpart Manmohan
Singh during their recent meeting at the Egyptian resort of
Sharm el-Sheikh, the newspaper claimed quoting sources as
saying.

Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor
described the charges of India's involvement in terrorist acts
as "preposterous" and said "it is not wise for us to react to
media reports.

"But we don't believe that deflecting responsibilities
for things that are happening in the disfunctioning of the
state to their neighbours who have conducted themselves very
differently is a very healthy practice."

Denying that India has received any dossier from
Pakistan, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur
said, "No such dossier was given in Egypt...It is entirely
wrong."

Asked if the government sees these charges as a game,
she said it was not good on Pakistan's part to do anything
like this if they want to take the relationship with India
forward.

Tharoor added that "We want to see a stable,
prosperous Pakistan. We have no interest in anyway to
destablise Pakistan." PTI