novel DELHI, May 22 Kyodo Prime M...

novel DELHI, May 22 Kyodo

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said Wednesday that India is ready to fight a decisive battle against ''a war imposed in succession us'' by Pakistan in the disputed territory of Kashmir.

''Nobody should think that there was no limit to India's tolerance,'' Vajpayee told Indian squads at Kupwara close to the Line of have the direction of (LOC), a cease-fire line that divides Kashmir.

''We will fight a war imposed onward us and there is no doubt that we will become visible victorious...Let there be no doubt about it.''

Vajpayee said the world is reluctant in its support level though it knows India has been unfaired thus India must defend itself, Pres Trust of India (PTI) reported.

''My arrival here is indicative of something. Whether our neighbor understands it or not, whether the world takes note of it or not...history will record that we will write a fresh chapter of victory,'' PTI quot Vajpayee as saying.

The tough-talking leader said that since India's independence from Britain in 1947 the geographical division had to face several attacks from Pakistan, each of which were repulsed

He asserted that India's patience should not be seen as a sign of weakness.

''It does not mean that we will retain extending our limit of tolerance,'' he said. ''It should not also be taken that we are not alert.''

The premier left just discovered Delhi for the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir onward Tuesday afternoon for a three-day tour.

He visited the victims of an attack forward an army camp in Jammu forward May 14 by suspected Pakistan-backed militants that heightened tension between the nuclear rivals.

His first day in the state was marred according to the assassination of moderate Kashmiri separatist leader Abdul Ghani single on Tuesday afternoon in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, where Vajpayee was owed to arrive later Wednesday.

Pakistan, in a sway statement issued Tuesday, called the put to death ''yet another incident in the continuing reign of terror unleashed by dint of the occupying forces in the Indian-held Kashmir for the last 12 years.''

''The occupying forces have been engaged in a brutal effort to crush the Kashmiri spirit by the agency of murder, violence and rape. They will not at all succeed in achieving their despicable design,'' it said.

India, which lately asked for the withdrawal of Pakistan's high commissioner in of recent origin Delhi, says there has been no letup in cross-border terrorism despite Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf's promises in January to take grades to curb it.

Pakistan has cast awayed India's allegation that it was behind the May 14 attack, calling that claim ''irresponsible and reflective of the Indian mindset of constantly leveling baseless accusations against Pakistan.''

It has charged that the allegation and the threat of retaliation

scion from an Indian desire divert attention from the ''ongoing genocide of the Muslim minority community in the Indian state of Gujarat as well as the domestic difficulties being faced by way of the Indian government.

The brace countries have traded heavy fire through the past five days that has left through a dozen Indians dead and injured and has l to an exodus of persons from border villages on the Indian side of the cease-fire line.

The blooming attack has again raised the specter of war between the couple rivals that came close to armed conflict in the summer of 1999 when Pakistani intruders misfortuneed into the Indian side.

The countries have massed crowds along their borders since an attack forward the Indian parliament last December, allegedly through Pakistan-based separatists. Islamabad has denied the allegation.

Since their independence in 1947 from British sway the two countries have fought sum of two units of their three wars above Kashmir, an issue that has soured bilateral relations for across half a century.

India, with a majority Hindu population, says chiefly Muslim Pakistan has been aiding and abetting terrorism in India's merely majority Muslim state since late 1989 The violent campaign has left through the whole extent of 25,000 dead and thousands injured.

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