Pune, February 14: Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram Sunday refused to be drawn into the question if the bomb blast here would have a bearing on the proposed talks between India and Pakistan later this month.
“This matter (of Indo-Pak talk) will be considered in New Delhi,” that was all Chidambaram said when asked at a press conference whether Saturday night’s blast would cast a shadow on the proposed Foreign Secretary-level talks.
“I will not go beyond this (the blast) incident in my responses,” he said. The Minister was addressing the media after visiting the blast site in Koregaon area, in India’s western state of Maharashtra and meeting the victims undergoing treatment at various hospitals.
“I have not come here to answer questions on the diplomatic or external affairs side. Those are matters we will consider in Delhi…
–PTI