India wants response on blasts from G-8

? India warned Saturday that attacks like the deadly Bombay train bombings are jeopardizing its peace process with nuclear rival Pakistan, and it demanded an “unambiguous” response from the Group of Eight summit.

Authorities began randomly frisking commuters and installed closed-circuit television cameras at six busy train stations, saying all stations eventually would be monitored.

Investigators rounded up more than 300 people for questioning in connection with the attack on Bombay’s commuter train network, but they freed most of them later.

The eight explosions during Thursday’s evening rush hour killed at least 200 people, provoking a groundswell of public anger – and accusations that the perpetrators were Islamic militants aided by Muslim-majority Pakistan, the neighbor and archrival of predominantly Hindu India.

Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told reporters that terrorist attacks are eroding the India-Pakistan peace process, which began in 2004.

“Every time something like this happens it undermines public confidence (in the peace process),” Saran said. “Anger is generated. So obviously this becomes a question mark over the process.”

“As a result of these terrorist attacks it is becoming very difficult to take the process forward,” he said.

Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam declined comment.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that the bombers had support from inside Pakistan, and he told Islamabad to rein in terrorists. Pakistan dismissed the allegations as “unsubstantiated.”

Singh, set to fly to St. Petersburg today to observe the Group of Eight summit of major industrialized nations, will make “a very strong pitch for a united response” to the bombings, Saran said.

Indian leaders have become increasingly worried that violence is spreading to the rest of the country from Kashmir, the Himalayan region at the heart of India-Pakistan enmity.

Kashmir is split between the two countries, but both claim it all.

Separatist militants in the Indian-controlled section have been fighting a guerrilla war for the past 16 years, and India accuses Pakistan of aiding and abetting them. Pakistan says it only provides them moral support.