India on Thursday 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.
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"We have not received any such dossier," sources in the Prime Minister's Office told PTI in New Delhi.
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, "We want to see a stable, prosperous Pakistan. We have no interest in anyway to destablise Pakistan."
