As the investigations into the recent terrorist attack in Ayodhya pointed to the banned Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba, Islamabad on Friday asked India to conduct 'proper investigations' to establish the true identity of the attackers.

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Reacting to the reports of LeT's involvement in the attack, Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani
said Islamabad had strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Ayodhya.

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"It is a common knowledge that sometimes police authorities apportion blame on foreign elements in order to avoid responsibilities to apprehend the real culprits," a Foreign Office press release quoted Jilani as saying.