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Pakistan not taking Jundals claims lightly: Salman Bashir

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Pak High Commissioner to India Salman Bashir has said Pakistan is investigating Abu Jundals claims.

Pakistan High Commissioner to India Salman Bashir has said Pakistan was not taking Abu Jundal’s claims on Pakistan’s role in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks lightly.Speaking to Karan Thapar TV show on Sunday he suggested it was unlikely that Islamabad would investigate the role of state actors in the attacks.Responding to a question Salman Bashir said: “if our own Army Headquarters is attacked, if ISI offices are attacked, it is really incredible to allege that Pakistani state institutions were involved in this.”I would say there has been a sea change in Pakistan-India relationships. I can say for Pakistan with great degree of certainty that all levels, the leadership, state institutions, people of Pakistan, we realise that it is in Pakistans self interest, national interest to have best of relations with India, he said.On the issue of terror Bashir said Pakistan was willing to cooperate and reiterated his countrys offer for a joint investigation into the Mumbai attacks. He said Pakistan is yet to hear from India on this.“Anybody whether it is state, non-state, terrorism is something that is abhorrent to our ethos, to our values, internationally, to Pakistan and so therefore, I think let’s not reach prematurely to conclusions that are not warranted” he said.