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India rules out Pakistan attack | India rules out Pakistan attack |
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India's defence minister says India is not planning any military action against Pakistan in response to the Mumbai (Bombay) attacks. | India's defence minister says India is not planning any military action against Pakistan in response to the Mumbai (Bombay) attacks. |
However, AK Antony said ties between the two countries would not be "normal" until Pakistan took action against militants operating on its soil. | |
Last month's attacks in Mumbai left more than 170 people dead. | Last month's attacks in Mumbai left more than 170 people dead. |
India says militants involved in the attack had Pakistani links and has urged Islamabad to take action. | |
Pakistan denies any involvement in the attacks, but has promised to co-operate with the Indian investigation. | Pakistan denies any involvement in the attacks, but has promised to co-operate with the Indian investigation. |
It has been under tremendous Indian and American pressure to act. | It has been under tremendous Indian and American pressure to act. |
'My responsibility' | |
Mr Antony said India was "not planning any military action" against Pakistan, but urged Islamabad to do more in hunting down militants. | |
There is no supportive interaction with our intelligence [agencies] and the Lashkar-e-Taiba Asif Ali Zardari,Pakistani president | |
"Unless Pakistan takes actions against those terrorists who are operating on their soil against India... things will not be normal," he told reporters. | "Unless Pakistan takes actions against those terrorists who are operating on their soil against India... things will not be normal," he told reporters. |
"We have to think about the safety of our people. I cannot say what course of action we will take, but unless Pakistan shows sincerity in what they are saying, things will not be as usual." | "We have to think about the safety of our people. I cannot say what course of action we will take, but unless Pakistan shows sincerity in what they are saying, things will not be as usual." |
Speaking in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that India wanted "results from Pakistan and not mere assurances". | |
Pakistan has arrested dozens of members of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an Islamic charity the UN has listed a terrorist organisation in the wake of the Mumbai killings. | |
India says the charity group is a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group it says was behind the attacks. | |
The Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who also founded Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), is under house arrest. | |
At the weekend Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari insisted in an interview with Newsweek magazine that there was "no supportive interaction with our intelligence [agencies] and the LeT". | |
But he accepted that "non-state actors" who may be engaged in militant activity on Pakistani soil were "my responsibility". | |
Mr Zardari is expected to hold a meeting with his ruling allies later on Tuesday evening to discuss the tension with India. | |
The Pakistan National Assembly is continuing its debate on the same subject. |