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'Our action will depend on Pak. conduct'


The Union Home Minister, L.K. Advani, with his daughter, Pratibha Advani, at the Sindhu Darshan festival in Leh on Saturday. — PTI

LEH JUNE 1 . Refusing to take the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf's assurances on curbing cross-border terrorism at face value, New Delhi today said its future course of action would depend not on words but on Islamabad's conduct on the ground.

Pooh-poohing Gen. Musharraf's statement that Pakistan would not go in for war first, the Union Home Minister, L. K. Advani, said ``you have been waging a war against us for the past two decades. We are very seriously pondering how to respond to it.''

Speaking after inaugurating the Sindhu Darshan festival here, Mr. Advani, responding to Gen. Musharraf's assurance that Pakistan would not allow its territory for export of terrorism, said that experience had shown that Islamabad was ``unreliable.'' "We will see what happens on the ground and then decide.'' Recalling the post-September 11 developments, when the U.S. President, George Bush, had said that the terrorists had declared a war on the United States and that it would rally a global coalition to give a befitting response, the Home Minister asked, ``would the U.S. have remained silent if Afghanistan had said that we would not declare a war on it first?''— PTI

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