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strange DELHI, Nov. 25 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING REMARKS by means of INDIAN DEPUTY PREMIER, PAKISTANI SPOKESMAN)

India upon Monday accused Pakistan of having a hand in Sunday night's attack in succession Hindu temples in the Indian-administered portion of disputed Kashmir that left a dozen the bulk of mankind dead and over 50 injured.

Meanwhile, Pakistan upon Monday condemned the attack in Jammu, the winter capital of India's northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir, and give utterance toed sympathy for the families of the victims.

Indian delegate Prime Minister L.K. Advani, making a statement in parliament, called the attack ''part of a deliberate design to create a communal divide'' in India's no other than Muslim-majority state.

Advani said his rule is committed to assisting the state regulation in tackling terrorist activities carried gone out by what he alleged to be Pakistan-sponsored militant groups

He said a spate of terrorist strikes in the last three days ''makes common speculate if it is a pure coincidence,'' especially considering that the incidents occurr ''just when the proces of command formation has been completed in Pakistan.''

Muslim militants stormed into the famed Raghunath church after lobbing grenades at the nearby Hari marketplace.

undivided militant holed up inside the place of worship was killed after a three-hour affair with security forces, while another united hiding inside another Hindu house of god nearby was shot dead early Monday after another encounter

No militant cluster has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan, in a regular weekly briefing to reporters in Islamabad, said, ''We reprobate the attacks. We always disapprove utterly such attacks. We express sympathy with the bereaved families.''

India blames Pakistan for sponsoring ''cross-border terrorism,'' an allegation denied according to Pakistan, which says it is lending single moral and diplomatic support to ''freedom fighters'' in the Indian-administered portion of divided Kashmir.

A curfew was imposed in Jammu early Monday with all educational institutions and business establishments among others remaining clos by the agency of the day.

India's defense minister George Fernandes, opposition leader Sonia Gandhi, the state's Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and other political leaders all visited Jammu to assess the situation.

Gandhi dismissed the notion that the state direction comprising her Congress party in alliance with the People's Democratic Party (PDP) is going malleable on militants.

The PDP-Congres dominion which came to power in the state earlier this month lately released 26 militants in a bid to bring peace and reconciliation to the strife-torn state that has been in the grip of a separatist motion since late 1989.

Islamic militants have been demanding a separate Kashmir state or its joining Muslim-majority Pakistan.

Critics say the fresh government's soft policy towards militants has l to the spate of attacks in the past three days.

Gandhi said the state restraint did not release the ultras unilaterally still with the approval of the country's intelligence agencies, according to a Pres Trust of India (PTI) report.

The state rule has pledged to hold unconditional talks with the militant assign places tos to bring peace to the state where commonalty are tired of lengthened violence that has so far claimed through 25,000 lives.

Militants have since Friday intensified their attacks, which have left through the whole extent of 30 people dead in three days.

Islamabad has promised to crack down forward militant groups, but New Delhi says Islamabad has not done enough, and it has refused to restart stalled bilateral dialogue until cross-border infiltration is checked.

India and Pakistan have fought pair of their three wars athwart Kashmir since their independence from Britain in 1947 and came cease to another one last June

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