Islamabad: Pakistan on Monday said peace talks with India could resume in late October, and offered to take action if proof was given that Pakistani spies and militants were involved in the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai July this year.
Mumbai Police on Saturday said Pakistan military's Inter-Services Intelligence and the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group were behind the blasts that killed 186 people and wounded hundreds more on July 7.
''If India feels that it's not just propaganda, and it feels it has some information that suggests links with some people here or some kind of connection, then yes we will take action. We will help in investigations,'' Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam told a weekly news conference in Islamabad.
Both Pakistan and Lashkar have rejected the accusations.
However, the new foreign secretary, Shiv Shankar Menon, asserted on Sunday that India would hand over evidence.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed to resume the peace process during a meeting in Havana last month and directed their foreign secretaries to work out dates for their talks.
New Delhi had cancelled talks after the attack in July, but the spokeswoman said ideas on dates for a resumption had been exchanged.
''The likely time for the foreign secretaries' review meeting is anytime after Ramadan,'' she said, referring to the Islamic fasting month that is likely to end on October 24.
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