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PAKISTAN POURS SCORN 

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FROM IDREES BAKHTIAR Published 28.01.02, 12:00 AM
Islamabad, Jan. 28 :    Islamabad, Jan. 28:  Pakistan has termed as 'ridiculous and funny' the claim that two of its nationals have been implicated in the Calcutta strike and gunned down in Hazaribagh. 'It's a joke, it's a mockery,' Pakistan government spokesman Syed Anwar Mahmood said. He advised Indian officials to come out of their 'cynicism and obsession' with the ISI, adding that Pakistan was being seen behind 'everything that happens or does not happen in India'. 'To make outlandish claims could satisfy preconceived designs of someone, but nobody with wisdom is prepared to believe in them,' the spokesman said. 'The whole thing smacks of a melodrama of the first order, a cooked-up matter, ab initio (from the beginning),' he added. He pointed that Indian officials had first blamed the ISI and then detained five Bangladeshis. The Bangladesh government made a strong protest, he added. 'Suddenly now, Indian law enforcement agencies claim that two of the suspects were Pakistanis, and they are killed in the alleged encounter.' 'Even today, the initial reports were that two arrests were made. Then it was said that one out of two suspects has been injured, and now the new reports are that one had died and the second made a confession before death. 'The entire drama borders on absurdity and fails to register with any thinking person,' Mahmood said. 'Rather than to continue blaming the ISI and Pakistan for all acts of terrorism, it is about time that the Indian leadership should look inwards for answers and clues within,' the spokesman said. He added that over a dozen insurgencies and movements are going on in various parts of India, and instead of facing facts, Indian officials find it easy to blame Pakistan.    
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