India said on Saturday it was still deciding whether to go ahead with high-level peace talks with Pakistan after claiming the Mumbai blasts were carried out with help from "across the border". The talks, slated for next Thursday in New Delhi between top foreign ministry officials of both countries, were meant to review progress in the peace process.
"No decision has been taken (on the talks) one way or the other," foreign ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna told AFP. His statement followed an earlier Press Trust of India report quoting India's junior foreign minister Anand Sharma as saying "the talks will be held at an appropriate time".
In an indication of a changing mood toward Pakistan, two Indian parliamentarians cancelled their planned trip to Islamabad to attend a Commonwealth workshop on women and development beginning on Sunday.
"When we go to any meeting in Pakistan, we are going as MPs. It won't be very fit to go right now ... with the present circumstances," legislator Sandeep Dikshit of the Congress party told CNN-IBN TV network on Saturday.