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Pakistan on Tuesday questioned the veracity of India's assertion that the two persons killed in an encounter in Hazaribagh were Pakistanis having links with the Inter-Services Intelligence and were involved in the attack on the American Center in Kolkata.
The same attempt was made during the December 13 attack on Parliament, defence spokesman Major General Rashid Qureshi told reporters in Islamabad.
It is "ridiculous" that all persons who were killed in encounters in India confessed their Pakistani identity before their death, he said.
The Indian claims were so "hollow" that the international media had stopped taking notice of them, he added.
Qureshi said the Indian charge of ISI being behind the January 22 attack was rejected by Federal Bureau of Investigation chief Robert Mueller the same day.
He said he believed that the target was not the United States, but the "atrocities" of the local police.
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