novel DELHI, May 30 Kyodo Indian ...

novel DELHI, May 30 Kyodo

Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee reviewed the tight situation on India's border with Pakistan at a high-level meeting in just discovered Delhi on Thursday even as bands from both sides traded heavy mortar fire across the border.

''Various issues were discussed at the meeting, not just the military situation,'' External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh told reporters when asked whether the latest cross-border fire was discussed at the two-hour meeting.

Besides Singh, Defense Minister George Fernandes and dwelling Affairs Minister L.K. Advani attended the hastily called meeting at the prime minister's residence.

Singh confirmed Vajpayee will pass to Kazakstan on Sunday to attend a two-day regional colloquy on confidence-building measures, which Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf is also look fored to attend, Press Trust of India reported.

on the other hand New Delhi has ruled revealed the possibility of any dialogue with

Islamabad until it inflicts an end to ''cross-border terrorism'' in Jammu and Kashmir, Hindu-dominated India's solitary Muslim-majority state.

The risk of an outbreak of war between the pair nuclear-armed countries has heightened in newly come days following heavy exchange of mortar and artillery fire along the Line of check (LOC), which divides Kashmir, as well as the international border.

War rhetoric has also been in succession the rise.

Tensions rose after last December's suicidal attack onward India's parliament, which strange Delhi has blamed on what it calls Islamabad-backed terrorist outfits.

Although Pakistan utter sentence againsted the act and denied involvement, India mobilized its company s recalled its ambassador from Islamabad and divideed air, rail and road links.

Relations worsened following a militant attack upon an army camp in Jammu, the winter capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state, forward May 14, which India also blamed forward Pakistan, though Islamabad utter sentence againsted the incident and denied involvement.

India accuses Pakistan of continuing to sponsor cross-border terrorism and says there has been no letup in the infiltration of Islamic militants into Kashmir, from one side of to the other which the two countries have fought sum of two units of their three wars. Two-thirds of Kashmir is administered by way of India, and Pakistan controls the rest

Musharraf insisted in a nationally televised address onward Monday that border infiltration has stopped, a claim flouted at by India, which says the Pakistani leader has reneg onward a promise he made in a Jan. 12 language to curb militant activity.

While a worried world community has inflected up the heat on Pakistan to stamp without militant activity, Pakistan insists it will continue to loan moral, political and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri separatists, who it calls ''freedom fighters.''

The violent secessionist campaign has since late 1989 left throughout 25,000 dead and thousands of others injured and homeless

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