"Indian Foreign Minister refuses to criticise Colombo for abrogating CFA" Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, in an interview to CNN-IBN news channel, Sunday admitted that India had "scrupulously avoided" being a party to peace negotiations in Sri Lanka. The Indian FM who last week had ruled out any military solution to the ethnic strife in the war-torn island, on Sunday, failed to criticize Sri Lanka for abrogating the ceasefire. Questioned whether Colombo's decision to abrogate the ceasefire agreement was a "mistake," the minister replied that "any country that takes action against terrorists is free to do so within their legal system." Indian Foreign Minister Pranab MukherjeeHe refused to criticize Sri Lanka for abrogating the ceasefire accord because India was not a party to it. "We were never a party to it; attempts were made to drag us to be a party, but we scrupulously avoided it for obvious reasons; because we had to pay a high price," he said. In his...