India tells citizens to avoid Pakistan travel

NEW DELHI, (AFP)

India on Friday advised its citizens not to visit Pakistan amid tensions between the two countries over last month’s attacks in Mumbai which New Delhi blames on Pakistan-based militants.

A foreign ministry spokesman said reports in the Pakistani media linking a bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Lahore to the alleged arrests of several Indians in Pakistan made it unsafe for Indians to visit to that country.

“Indian citizens are therefore advised that it would be unsafe for them to travel or be in Pakistan,” ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash told reporters in New Delhi.

On Wednesday, a woman was killed and four others injured when a bomb exploded on a main road in the eastern Pakistani city.

Reports in Pakistani media quoting unnamed sources said an Indian national was detained immediately after the blast which led to the arrests of several other Indians in connection with the attack.

Islamabad has so far neither confirmed or denied the reports.