Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday said it would be "unfortunate" if India allowed incidents of terrorism to undermine the peace process and suggested that it was not possible to cooperate with New Delhi "in the absence of evidence" about Pakistani involvement in terrorist acts in its eastern neighbour.
Reacting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Independence Day address in which he asked Islamabad to take concrete steps to end cross-border terrorism in India, foreign office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said "to allow terrorism to undermine this process would be very unfortunate."
"Pakistan is committed to fight terrorism. We are also committed to peace process with India. It is a process which requires sincerity and commitment by both sides. This is a process that is meant to resolve issues and disputes that has caused conflict, tensions and distrust in this region," she said.
Referring to Pakistan's cooperation with UK and US to unravel the Islamic militants' plot to blow up US-bound planes, she said such cooperation was possible when countries "trust and cooperate and share intelligence with each other."
"We cannot cooperate with any country which is in the habit of making allegations and which has a history of not cooperating with us. We have not received any evidence whatsoever in any terrorist act in India and it is not possible for Pakistan to offer any kind of cooperation in the absence of that," she said.
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