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This is an archive article published on August 18, 2009

PM’s remarks not intended to impugn Pak actions: Tharoor

India said that PM Manmohan Singh statement was not intended to ‘impugn the actions of Government of Pakistan.’

A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh talked about the “credible” information about possible strikes by Pakistan-based terror groups,India said on Tuesday that it was not intended to “impugn the actions of Government of Pakistan.”

“What the Prime Minister has said is that some terror organisations appear to pose a threat to us. A very real and credible threat. He did not in any way impugn the actions of Government of Pakistan,” Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said explaining Singh’s remarks.

While addressing the Conference of Chief Ministers yesterday,Singh had said “there is credible information of ongoing plans of terrorist groups in Pakistan to carry out fresh attacks.”

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Tharoor said “we hope the Pakistan government will do everything on their part to prevent any fresh attack on India emerging from its soil.”

Asked if it was contrary to what was decided in Sharm-El Sheikh where the Prime Ministers of both India and Pakistan signed a joint statement,he said “the Prime Minister at no point attacked the Government of Pakistan… He was not going back on the goodwill he had generated and his fundamental desire for peaceful relations with our neighbours.”

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