Pakistan has played no role in terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar said on Thursday. Mukhtar was responding to an assertion by India's military that the terrorists who conducted the attacks in Mumbai had come from Pakistan. "In previous cases they have acted like this, but later it all proved wrong," Mukhtar told AFP, referring to previous Indian claims of Pakistani involvement in terrorist attacks. "We are very positive that Pakistan is not involved in this," the defence minister said, adding that he would wait to see if accusations of Pakistani involvement also came from India's government. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who is in India for peace talks, also told a private television channel that nobody should be blamed until investigations were complete. "Our experience in the past tells us that we should not jump to conclusions," Qureshi said. "We should not go for a knee-jerk reaction."
India's Major General RK Hooda, who is leading the military operation to flush out the terrorists from Mumbai, told reporters that Pakistanis were conducting the attacks and pretending to be from within India.