India's Home Minister, Mr Lal Krishna Advani, today accused Pakistan of being the main "source of terrorism" in India.
"So far as India is concerned, our western neighbour [Pakistan] has been the principal source of terrorism," Mr Advani told members of the lower house of India's parliament.
India accuses Pakistan of training and funding militants in Kashmir, a charge that Islamabad denies.
Mr Advani said some Pakistan-based militant groups, which India claims create trouble in India, had been banned by Britain and he hoped the United States would follow suit.
Prime Minister Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee told members of the lower house that the international community needed to summon the political will to ensure all "funding and safe havens are totally denied to terrorists everywhere".
"[There can] be no political, economic or ideological justification for terrorism," Mr Vajpayee said as he briefed MPs on his recent visits to Russia, the US and Britain.
He said the universal revulsion against terrorism in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist strikes in New York and Washinton, should be exploited to "single-mindedly destroy all terrorism everywhere".
Mr Vajpayee also said India was in constant contact with Northern Alliance leaders, who this month retook the Afghan capital of Kabul from the Taliban militia.
AFP