Pakistan condemns bomb blasts
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One of the blasts occured at a parking lot near the Gateway to India monument during lunchtime.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan condemned the blasts in Mumbai that killed at least 46 people.
"We deplore these attacks and we sympathize with the victims and their families," foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan told reporters in Islamabad.
"We condemn all acts of terror and I think that such wanton targeting of civilians should be condemned in the strongest possible terms."
More than 100 people were injured when two explosions shook India's financial capital on Monday, according to hospital officials. The explosive devices were inside the trunks of two taxis, police said. (Full story)
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the blasts.
But the Indian government said that outlawed Muslim students' groups had been involved in similar attacks in recent months.
Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani said the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) had acted with Lashkar e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based Kashmiri militant group that New Delhi says was behind an attack on the Indian parliament in December 200.
"Earlier these blasts were in buses and in almost all cases the organization involved has been SIMI and acting in conjunction with Lashkar e-Taiba,'' Advani told reporters.
