Pakistan on Saturday rejected an Indian claim that Pakistan's spy agency masterminded the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed more than 200 people.
"We reject this allegation, and demand that India should provide us any evidence, if they have (it)," Tariq Azim, minister of state for information, told The Associated Press.
The Pakistani reaction came after Mumbai police Commissioner A.N. Roy said the attacks had been masterminded by Pakistan's spy agency and carried out by a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, assisted by the Students Islamic Movement of India, a banned Islamic group.
Roy was speaking to reporters at the conclusion of a police investigation into the bombings, which ripped apart packed commuter trains in India's financial and entertainment hub, Mumbai.
Azim denied Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence, or ISI, had any role in the attacks.
Pakistan and India have a history of bitter relations and Azim said it was not the first time that New Delhi had blamed Pakistan for attacks in India.
"Whenever some bad thing happens in India, they start blaming us for it," he said.
He called the latest accusations "sad and unfortunate."
"Such allegations only give benefit to the real culprits, who escape arrest," he said.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars since they gained independence from Britain in 1947.
The accusation came just weeks after Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed to push forward with a peace process that had been suspended since the bombing.
Lashkar-e-Tayyaba — an Islamic militant group fighting since 1989 Indian forces in Indian Kashmir — could not immediately be reached for comment.
More than 68,000 people have been killed in the Kashmir conflict.
CNN.com - India police: Pakistan spy agency behind Mumbai*bombings - Sep 30, 2006
Same here; Evidence that ISI Funded 9/11 and Muhammed Atta as well
Scathing Video-Log of "The Quest of 9/11 Families" to Create the 9/11 Comission 
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