Want to shut groups responsible for 26/11 attacks: Qureshi

Lalit K Jha

Washington, Oct 8 (PTI) Amid India's insistence that
it should bring to book perpetrators of the 26/11 attacks,
Pakistan Thursday said the groups responsible for the brazen
assault on Mumbai was not its "friend" and believes that these
outfits have to be "checked, curtailed and shut".

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who is
on a visit here, said his country's enlightened self-interest
was to normalise and live in peace with India.

"Organisations that carried out the acts those results
in Mumbai attack are certainly no friend to Pakistan because
through those acts they not only killed people they could have
triggered off something more serious than that," he said in
his address to Washington-based think tank Council on Foreign
Relations.

"We have to guard against that mindset. In the
interest of stability and peace in the region, it is in the
interest of Pakistan's enlightened self-interest to normalise
and live in peace with India.

"The Government of Pakistan believes that these
organisations have to be checked, curtailed and shut," Qureshi
said. India believes Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) carried out the
attack that killed more than 180 people, including foreigners.

His comments assume significance in the wake of
India's insistence that the Composite Dailogue process can be
resumed only if Pakistan acts against the perpetrators of the
Mumbai terror attacks. (MORE) PTI