VARIOUS: INDIA'S DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER LAL KRISHNA ADVANI AND PAKISTAN'S FOREIGN MINISTRY'S SPOKESMAN, MASOOD KHAN CONDEMN THE LATEST BOMBINGS IN BOMBAY

Record ID: 1374164

  • Title: VARIOUS: INDIA'S DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER LAL KRISHNA ADVANI AND PAKISTAN'S FOREIGN MINISTRY'S SPOKESMAN, MASOOD KHAN CONDEMN THE LATEST BOMBINGS IN BOMBAY
  • Date: 25th August 2003
  • Summary: (EU) NEW DELHI, INDIA (AUGUST 25, 2003) (ANI) FOR DETAILED SHOTLIST 1 - 4 SEE PROD 12264/03: INDIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER LAL KRISHNA ADVANI ARRIVING IN CAR REPORTERS RUSHING TOWARDS THE CAR ADVANI ARRIVING TO ADDRESS REPORTERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) INDIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER LAL KRISHNA ADVANI SAYING "In almost all (previous Bombay blast) cases, the organisations involved have been SIMI (Students' Islamic Movement of India) acting mostly in conjunction with the Lashkar-e-Taiba. Whether today's blasts also are the handiwork of the same organisations would depend upon the investigations that are going on and maybe within a short while the agencies investigating the cases would be able to see."
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  • Location: NEW DELHI, INDIA
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  • Country: Pakistan India
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA3FD73QAGO3QNYRZ3DB03M611M
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  • Story Text: India's deputy prime minister said investigations would reveal those responsible for bomb blasts in Bombay as Pakistan condemned the attacks.
    Two car bombs killed at least 46 people in the heart of India's financial capital on Monday (August 25, 2003), one ripping through a congested bullion market and a second exploding near a popular tourist attraction, police said.
    It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the co-ordinated bomb attacks which also wounded 137 people.
    But Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani said similar attacks in the past had been carried out by the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), acting alongside the Pakistan-based Kashmiri militant group Lashkar e-Taiba.
    The Bombay blasts follow an easing in tension between Pakistan and India, which came close to war last year following a December 2001 attack on India's federal parliament.
    In Islamabad, Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan condemned the attacks as acts of terrorism.
    "We deplore these attacks," Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan told a weekly news briefing. "We condemn all acts of terrorism and I think that such wanton targeting of civilians should be condemned in the strongest possible terms."
    Khan said an Indian delegation was expected in Islamabad on Tuesday (August 26) for technical-level talks on resuming air links suspended since New Delhi blamed Pakistani-based militants for a bloody attack on its parliament in December 200
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