New Delhi: The Pakistan National Assembly has called for a joint probe into the Samjhauta Express blasts.
Pakistan Foriegn Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri - who is in India for on a three-day official visit - has asked the world not to blame Pakistan for the blasts.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured Pakistan of complete cooperation.
But does all of this absolve Pakistan from blame? Does the country have a hand in the twin blasts that rocked the Delhi-Attari Samjhauta Express?
According to a report in news agency PTI, security agencies probing the Samjhauta Express blasts have said that the incident was the handiwork of Pakistan-based militant groups.
Highly-placed sources in Union Home Ministry were also quoted by PTI as saying that they had "vital clues" which included a telephone conversation between a caller from Delhi to Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.
The sources declined to give out the identity of the militant groups behind the blasts but hinted at sleeper cells of Lashker-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
The security agencies have said that the modus operandi - detonating low-intensity blasts with explosive materials comprising readily available combustibles - is a clear indication that these groups were involved in the blasts.
Though the matter would be taken up by the Pakistani authorities as this is a joint probe, PTI has quoted sources as saying that this particular piece of information would not figure in the talks between the Foreign Ministers of the two countries, Pranab Mukherjee and Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri.
The Samjhauta Express was rocked by twin blasts on Sunday night.
The blasts killed 68 people and critically injured many others. Among the dead were both Pakistani and Indian nationals.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said that the incident was aimed at disrupting the Indo-Pak peace process adding that India would not allow the peace process to be derailed.
He has also promised assistance to all Pakistani families who want to come to India to look for their loved ones who were on the ill-fated train, saying that the Foreign Ministry would provide them with visas.
(With inputs from PTI)
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