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WASHINGTON, July 17: The US has so far not seen any evidence to suggest that Pakistan or Pakistan-based groups were involved in last week’s Mumbai blasts, a State Department official said on Monday. “The evidence to who is responsible, we have not seen yet … we will wait for the results of the investigation,” said Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher while briefing South and Central Asian journalists on United States policy ambitions in the two regions. Describing the blasts as a ‘horrible tragedy,’ Mr Boucher said they were executed by “somebody with evil intent, with local knowledge … lot...

Who funded Mumbai bombers? UK cops quiz cabbie after Manmohan told Tony it's time The investigations into last week's serial train blasts in Mumbai that left over 200 people dead and over 800 injured have now been expanded to cover other countries with the Scotland Yard questioning a Coventry-based cabbie serving a nine-year term for raising funds for Lashkar-e-Taiba. This follows a day after Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh spoke with his British counterpart Tony Blair on the sidelines of G-8 summit in St Petersburg in Russia reminding him of his promise to block funds being provided to Lashkar-e-Taiba by...