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Pakistan U-turns on sending spy chief to India
By MUNIR AHMAD,Associated Press Writer AP - 1 hour 16 minutes ago
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan on Saturday withdrew a pledge to send its spy chief to India to help probe the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, denting efforts to prevent a crisis between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
Indian officials have linked the attacks to "elements" in Pakistan, raising the prospect of a breakdown in a tentative peace process between the South Asia rivals.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani insisted on Friday that his country was not involved in the carnage, which left more than 190 people dead in India's financial capital.
With Pakistan vowing complete cooperation to help catch those responsible, Gilani said the head of the Inter Services Intelligence agency would go to India at the request of India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh.
However, Zahid Bashir, a spokesman for Gilani, told The Associated Press on Saturday that the decision had been changed and that a lower-ranking intelligence official would travel instead.
He declined to explain the about face, and did not say who would be making the trip or when.
The spokesman for Pakistan's army, which controls the spy agency, could not be reached for comment.
India has repeatedly accused Pakistan of complicity in terrorist attacks on its soil, some of which it traces to militant groups fighting Indian rule in the divided Himalayan territory of Kashmir.
Pakistan insists its support for militants in Kashmir, where anti-India sentiment runs high, is only moral and political.
Relations have improved in recent years, but tension flared again in July when India accused the Pakistani spy agency of involvement in the bombing of its embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, which killed about 60 people.
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