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Pakistan's steps tactical: India to US

After a 30-minute meeting between the visiting US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Home Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani, sources said India impressed upon the US the need to do away with the entire infrastructure of terrorism built by Pakistan.

"We told the US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage the same thing during his recent visit to India," the sources said, adding that whatever Pakistan did to bring down tension along the border was "good".

"But we are sceptical about their intentions. These are tactical concessions," they quoted Advani as having told the defence secretary.

Advani pointed out to Rumsfeld that terrorists were already present in Jammu and Kashmir and even if infiltration stopped from across the border, the terrorists could continue with their violence for two to three months, they said.

The home minister was understood to have told Rumsfeld that the Indo-Pak tension decreased because the leaders of the global coalition against terrorism had endorsed India's stand on the issue.

PTI

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