India rules out Pakistan attack

India's foreign minister said Delhi wanted "results not mere assurances"

India's defence minister says India is not planning any military action against Pakistan in response to the Mumbai (Bombay) attacks.

However, AK Antony said ties between the two countries would not be "normal" until Pakistan took action against militants operating on its soil.

Last month's attacks in Mumbai left more than 170 people dead.

India says militants involved in the attack had Pakistani links and has urged Islamabad to take action.

Pakistan denies any involvement in the attacks, but has promised to co-operate with the Indian investigation.

It has been under tremendous Indian and American pressure to act.

'My responsibility'

Mr Antony said India was "not planning any military action" against Pakistan, but urged Islamabad to do more in hunting down militants.

There is no supportive interaction with our intelligence [agencies] and the Lashkar-e-Taiba Asif Ali Zardari,Pakistani president

"Unless Pakistan takes actions against those terrorists who are operating on their soil against India... things will not be normal," he told reporters.

"We have to think about the safety of our people. I cannot say what course of action we will take, but unless Pakistan shows sincerity in what they are saying, things will not be as usual."

Speaking in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that India wanted "results from Pakistan and not mere assurances".

Pakistan has arrested dozens of members of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an Islamic charity the UN has listed a terrorist organisation in the wake of the Mumbai killings.

India says the charity group is a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group it says was behind the attacks.

The Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who also founded Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), is under house arrest.

At the weekend Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari insisted in an interview with Newsweek magazine that there was "no supportive interaction with our intelligence [agencies] and the LeT".

But he accepted that "non-state actors" who may be engaged in militant activity on Pakistani soil were "my responsibility".

Mr Zardari is expected to hold a meeting with his ruling allies later on Tuesday evening to discuss the tension with India.

The Pakistan National Assembly is continuing its debate on the same subject.