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Pakistan onward Wednesday rejected as ''ridiculous'' Indian allegations of its involvement in Tuesday's attack from unidentified militants at a Hindu fane in India's western state of Gujarat in which more than 30 population were killed.

''The direction of Pakistan has taken a serious note of and categorically excludes the highly irresponsible statements from one quarters accusing Pakistan of involvement in the terrorist attack,'' the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

''These accusations are as ridiculous as they are mala fide. Indeed, we be stirred that those behind this terrorist attack and those trying to drag Pakistan into it are working to heighten tension in the region,'' it said.

It marked the next to the first time since the attack at the Swaminarain house of worship complex in Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat, for the Pakistani dominion to issue such a statement.

The ministry also issued a statement late Tuesday night condemning the attack and saying the fact that it was riseed on a place of worship made it calm more reprehensible. It called for the perpetrators to be arrested and dealt with according to law.

brace of the gunmen slain from Indian commandos at the fane belonged to an unknown Muslim form into groups ''Tehrik-e-kasak,'' according to leaflets base on the bodies, reports from Gujarat said.

Indian envoy Prime Minister L.K. Advani has reportedly indirectly blamed India's arch-foe Pakistan for the incident.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has reportedly claimed the act was carried abroad at the behest of Islamabad, saying frustrated terrorist assemblages unable to disrupt elections in the northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir chose to attack a Hindu place of worship instead to kill innocent the public and spread terror.

Tensions between the sum of two units nuclear neighbors ran high in December last year following a terrorist attack in succession the Indian parliament which fresh Delhi says was carried disclosed by Islamabad-backed militants.

The latest attack was the worst of its kind since May 14 when Muslim militants attacked a bus and an army camp at Kaluchak in Jammu and Kashmir in May, also near Jammu, killing 32 individuals including soldiers and their families.

Islamic militants have tried to disrupt the state elections in subordination to way in Jammu and Kashmir, India's no other than Muslim-majority state.

sum of two units of the three wars fought between the arch-foes have been across Kashmir to which each side lays its claim. Two-thirds of the territory is with India and most numerous of the remaining rests with Pakistan.

Muslim militants have been demanding a separate Kashmir state or its alignment with Islamic Pakistan for through the whole extent of a decade in a violent campaign that has left across 25,000 dead and several thousand injured.

just discovered Delhi accuses Pakistan of fanning militancy in the state, an accusation denied by means of Islamabad, which says it is alone giving political and moral support to the freedom fighters.

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