NEW DELHI – India's foreign minister has denied making a phone call to Pakistan's president at the height of the Mumbai attacks that led to Pakistan putting its air force on alert.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, shakes hands with Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, right, during a joint press conference following a meeting in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. Rice said Pakistan has a 'special responsibility' to cooperate with the investigation into the attacks, which Indian and U.S. officials have blamed on militant groups based in Pakistan.
Pakistan says President Asif Ali Zardari received a "threatening" call during the crisis, apparently from Indian External affair minister Pranab Mukherjee.
Pakistan's Dawn newspaper says the call was a hoax.
Reacting for the first time to the report, Mukherjee says in a statement Sunday that "I had made no such telephone call."
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