India slams British Foreign Secretary's Kashmir-Mumbai linkage

INDIA: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband's trip to India, billed as a "solidarity visit" following the Mumbai siege, was dubbed a "disaster" Saturday.

Miliband raised Indian hackles by linking the unresolved Kashmir dispute to the Mumbai attacks and because of what government sources called his "aggressive style" during his three-day visit which ended Friday.

"There is no linkage between Kashmir and the terror India has been facing emanating from Pakistan... The bureaucracy in the British foreign office should have educated him a little bit on the facts," ruling Congress party spokesman Manish Tiwari told reporters in New Delhi.

New Delhi, Sunday, AFP