India calls on Pakistan to dismantle terror infrastructures on its soil and take an immediate action against those behind the Mumbai siege. Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday demanded Pakistan to dismantle about 30 terrorist camps situated on the Line of Control in divided Kashmir.
Mukherjee also rejected Islamabad's claim that New Delhi had mobilized its army and air force in the aftermath of November's attacks, saying Indian forces had only conducted a routine annual winter exercise.
The minister also emphasized that India and Pakistan will exchange information and take confidence-building measures over the two neighbors' nuclear capability on January 1.
Mukherjee insisted that India would continue to put pressure on Pakistan through diplomacy.
"I do feel still we should continue to put pressure diplomatically through international community to achieve our objectives," he was quoted by the Press Trust of India as saying.
The remarks came after Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi urged India to withdraw its troops from the countries' common border in a bid to help defuse regional tension.
This is while US, British and Indian officials blamed Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) for the Mumbai siege, which have provoked a sharp rise in hostile rhetoric between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
American and British intelligence officials believe that the LeT commander, Zaki al- Rahman Lakhvi, was the mastermind behind the Last Mumbai terror attacks that killed some 179 people.
Last week, media reports suggested that a possible 'surgical' strike by India on the headquarters and camps of LeT in Pakistan was imminent. Pakistani troops, on the other hand, reinforced some positions on the Line of Control in divided Kashmir and the towns of Kasur and Sialkot.
However, tension between the two neighboring states was resolved to some extent after Indian and Pakistan leaders held dialogue via telephone, following regional initiatives by countries such as China and Iran.
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