NEW DELHI (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Indian police Sunday accused Pakistan's main intelligence service, Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI). of being connected to the bloody suicide attack on the Indian parliament, as hostility between the nuclear-armed enemies intensified.
New Delhi Police Commissioner Ajai Raj Sharma said the link had come to light during questioning of people over last Thursday's attack, which Indian officials have already blamed on Pakistan-based Resistance groups fighting India's rule over much of Kashmir.
He said the main suspect, now in police custody, had admitted he had been trained at an ISI camp in Muzzafarabad in the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir.
Sharma said the five men killed by Indian security forces after attacking the parliament complex with guns and grenades and killing eight other people were all Pakistani citizens.
Pakistan's defense spokesman Major-General Rashid Qureshi said Islamabad wanted a joint investigation of the incident, the Press Trust of India reported.
``We want India to desist from jumping to conclusions without conducting a preliminary inquiry. It is not proper,'' the agency quoted Qureshi as telling Indian journalists in Islamabad.
``We would like to assist the joint inquiry into the attack. Pakistan will take firm action if anybody is found involved in the attack,'' it quoted Qureshi as saying.