Islamabad: India and Pakistan should cooperate in fighting the common threat of terrorism instead of engaging in any sort of blame game over the Mumbai terror attacks, Information Minister Sherry Rehman said today.

"We need to grow out of the blame game. Scoring points will only move us further away from focusing on the very real and present danger of regional and global terrorism," she said on the sidelines of a function to mark the birth anniversary of Pakistan People's Party founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Rehman claimed India's leadership had made contradictory statements on the involvement of Pakistani agencies in the Mumbai attacks.

"It is our firm resolve to ensure that non-state actors do not use Pakistani soil to launch terrorist attacks anywhere in the world," she said, adding the country has initiated its own investigations into the Mumbai incident.

Rehman also said Pakistan did not "want war but if war is imposed on us, we will respond to defend our motherland".

The PPP-led government is following the ideology of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, who always wanted regional cooperation and a better life for the people, he said.

Source : PTI