<p>Rao also lent support to Pillai's statement ahead of the Islamabad talks that Pakistani spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) had a significant role in the Mumbai terror attack, saying that India is definitely concerned about ISI's role in 26/11.<br />"We are definitely concerned about the role of state actors in terrorism," Rao told NDTV news channel in an interview.<br /><br />In an interview, Pillai had stated that Lashkar-e-Taiba agent David Headley's questioning by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had confirmed that "ISI had a much more significant role to play in the Mumbai attacks..."<br />"ISI was literally controlling and coordinating the attacks from the beginning till the end," Pillai had stated. <br /><br />The Indian foreign secretary reiterated that the talks between the two nations had not collapsed. <br /><br />"There are differences in perception, but the gap is not unbridgeable," she said.<br />Rao said that the tone and tenor of Qureshi's remarks could have been better.<br />"In diplomacy, as in life, such ups and downs are common," she said. <br /><br />In another TV interview Friday night, Rao had stressed that the India-Pakistan talks had not "collapsed" and the dialogue process between them "must go on".<br />She had told CNN-IBN news channel that Qureshi's critical remarks about Krishna had come as "a real surprise" for India. <br /><br />"The comments (by Qureshi) came as a surprise, there was no real reason for the comments," the foreign secretary said. <br /><br />Qureshi at a press conference in Islamabad took potshots at Krishna and launched a broadside against India's what he called "selective focus on terror". He even said the "Indian foreign minister received foreign policy directions from New Delhi repeatedly during our meeting".</p>
<p>Rao also lent support to Pillai's statement ahead of the Islamabad talks that Pakistani spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) had a significant role in the Mumbai terror attack, saying that India is definitely concerned about ISI's role in 26/11.<br />"We are definitely concerned about the role of state actors in terrorism," Rao told NDTV news channel in an interview.<br /><br />In an interview, Pillai had stated that Lashkar-e-Taiba agent David Headley's questioning by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had confirmed that "ISI had a much more significant role to play in the Mumbai attacks..."<br />"ISI was literally controlling and coordinating the attacks from the beginning till the end," Pillai had stated. <br /><br />The Indian foreign secretary reiterated that the talks between the two nations had not collapsed. <br /><br />"There are differences in perception, but the gap is not unbridgeable," she said.<br />Rao said that the tone and tenor of Qureshi's remarks could have been better.<br />"In diplomacy, as in life, such ups and downs are common," she said. <br /><br />In another TV interview Friday night, Rao had stressed that the India-Pakistan talks had not "collapsed" and the dialogue process between them "must go on".<br />She had told CNN-IBN news channel that Qureshi's critical remarks about Krishna had come as "a real surprise" for India. <br /><br />"The comments (by Qureshi) came as a surprise, there was no real reason for the comments," the foreign secretary said. <br /><br />Qureshi at a press conference in Islamabad took potshots at Krishna and launched a broadside against India's what he called "selective focus on terror". He even said the "Indian foreign minister received foreign policy directions from New Delhi repeatedly during our meeting".</p>