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India says bombings have hurt Pakistan peace talks
01 Aug 2008 15:52:33 GMT
 Source: Reuters
COLOMBO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - India said on Friday that a spate of bombings in Indian cities and at its embassy in Kabul had adversely affected its four-year-old peace initiative with Pakistan.

"If you ask me to describe the state of the dialogue, it is in a place where it hasn't been in the last four years," Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon told reporters.

"We face a situation where things have happened in the recent past which were unfortunate and which quite frankly have affected the future of the dialogue."

India blames Pakistan for a breach of a 2003 ceasefire on its de facto border in disputed Kashmir, and accuses its spy agency of involvement in last month's bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul. A string of bombs in two Indian cities also killed dozens last month. (Reporting by Krittivas Mukherjee; Editing by Catherine Evans)


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