Pakistan To India: Watch Your Step

India said it has evidence that a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group was to blame for the suicide attack on Parliament that claimed 12 lives.

Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said Friday that India issued a formal complaint to the Pakistan High Commission claiming it has "technical evidence" that the attack on Parliament was the work of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants.

The Lashkar-e-Taiba guerrillas denied responsibility.

As tension ran high between the nuclear-armed arch enemies, Pakistan warned India against any "misadventure" in retaliation.

Gen. Rashid Qureshi said during a discussion on state television. Pakistan would take a "strong action" against any border or airspace violation, he added.

Five gunmen armed with AK-47s and explosives stormed the red sandstone complex in a suicide attack Thursday, killing six security force personnel and a gardener.

Singh said the complaint, given to Pakistan High Commissioner Ashraf Jahangir Qazi by Indian Foreign Secretary Chokila Iyer, demanded that Pakistan halt the activities of two Pakistan-based Islamic militant groups, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.

The demand also called on Islamabad to arrest the leaders of the militant groups and freeze their financial assets.

"I wish to emphasize that these demands are in accordance with necessary international obligations and commitments in countering terrorism," Singh said.

"We have made a demarche that India has technical evidence that yesterday's terrorist attack on Parliament House was not just against the symbol of Indian democracy and the sovereignty of the Indian people, that it was the handiwork of a terrorist organization based in Pakistan, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba," Singh said.

The Pakistan government's response was measured.

"Pakistan is against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations," said Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesman, Aziz Ahmed Khan. "President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and the government have already condemned the incident."

"Simply issuing a statement is not enough," he said, adding India would "have to provide us some evidence."

The Jaish-e-Mohammed group is accused of carrying out a massive suicide bombing attack against the Jammu-Kashmir state legislature on Oct. 1. That assault claimed 40 lives and was similar to Thursday's attack on Parliament.

Speaking from Islamabad, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba spokesman Yahya Mujahid said: "This is drama staged by Indian intelligence agencies in collusion with the Indian government to have the jihadi (militant) groups and Pakistan declared as terrorists. India wants to use the present international atmosphere against terrorism against Pakistan. No Kashmiri group is involved in attacks on civilians."

Singh would not reveal the evidence India claims to have against the militant organizations.

"There are obvious difficulties in revealing the evidence right now," he said. "The agencies of government have many means of obtaining intellience."

He said India had held consultations with the United States and other countries to pass on this evidence.

India has accused Pakistan of sponsoring and funding Islamic militants fighting for independence in the disputed Himalayan province of Kashmir.

India and Pakistan have gone to war twice over the territory, which both countries claim in its entirety.

India has been skeptical of Pakistan's new role as a key ally in the U.S.-led global war on terrorism.

"Pakistan has asserted that it is with the rest of the international community in combatting terrorism and that it does not promote terrorism," Singh said. "We expect that Pakistan will abide with what it says itself."

Asked whether India intended to take military action against the militants on Pakistani territory, Singh said: "India has said what it has to say through the voice of the statement of the Cabinet."

On Thursday, the Cabinet issued a pledge to fight terrorism.

"We will liquidate the terrorists and their sponsors, wherever they are, whoever they are," the statement said.

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