Pranab blames Pak for Mumbai attack

8220;Proof cannot be disclosed at this time,8221; he said, noting that Pakistan had assured India that it will not allow use of its territory for launching attacks against this country.

Pakistan had given this assurance at a meeting Singh and Zardari had on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly session on September 24.

Pak terms India8217;s contention 8216;jingoistic8217;

Pakistan termed as 8216;jingoistic8217; India8217;s contention that 8216;some elements8217; in that country are responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks and said there should be 8216;no politics8217; on the issue.

8220;Do not be jingoistic, understand the sentiments, understand that there are innocent people involved,8221; an agitated Pakistan8217;s Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, said soon after External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee talked about Pakistani linkages to the attacks.

8220;Do not play politics into the issue. It is a collective issue. We are facing a common enemy. We have to join hands to defeat this enemy,8221; said Qureshi, who is in India since Wednesday.

Mukherjee, citing 8216;preliminary information8217;, said in Jodhpur that 8216;some elements in Pakistan are responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks8217;.

He refused to divulge details, saying 8216;proof cannot be disclosed at this time8217; but added that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would talk to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on the issue.

Mukherjee said Pakistan had assured India that it will not allow use of its territory for launching attacks against this country.

Mukherjee said US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had spoken to him on Thursday and offered assistance to investigate the 8220;dastardly8221; attacks, which India had 8220;duly refused8221;.

Over 100 people were reportedly killed in the series of terror attacks in the western metropolis.