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NEW DELHI-The Indian government's peace process with Pakistan is "under stress" because its nuclear-armed foe was "inciting terror", the country's foreign secretary said on Monday.The statement comes after a deadly bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul this month and reports of cross-border firing on the line of control between India and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir."Unfortunately certain incidents in recent past have vitiated the atmosphere between India and Pakistan. The dialogue process is under stress," Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters."There have been statements by leaders of Pakistan, inciting terror," Menon added."There are such statements from some government officials and this incitement of violence has culminated in suicide blasts in our embassy in Kabul," he said. "All investigations point to Pakistan being behind the blast."India last week blamed Pakistan's intelligence service for a suicide car-bomb attack in Kabul that killed 58 people, including two Indian diplomats.India accuses Pakistan of backing a two-decade-old separatist revolt in Kashmir, which both sides claim in full but rule in part, and trying to hit Indian interests abroad.While ties had been warming since a peace process started in 2004, after the countries nearly went to a fourth war, there has been little progress in their main dispute over Kashmir, and both suspect each other's involvement in revolts in border areas.In the last two years India has suffered bomb attacks by suspected Islamist militants on cities outside Kashmir, including Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Varanasi, and in May, Jaipur.To read more go to:
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