India's focus on Mumbai attacks 'unfair': Pakistan

Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said today that India's focus on the 2008 Mumbai attacks was "unfair" and was stalling efforts to get relations between the countries back on track. Listen to podcast

Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said on Thursday that India's focus on the 2008 Mumbai attacks was "unfair" and was stalling efforts to get relations between the countries back on track.

"It is unfair and unrealistic and, in our view, counterproductive to .. keep the focus on that (Mumbai) to stall the process of the broader relationship between the two countries," Bashir said after talks in New Delhi with his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao.

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They were the first official talks between the nuclear-armed rivals since India suspended dialogue in the wake of the 2008 assault on its financial capital which it blamed on Pakistan-based militants.