New Delhi: India will impress on US Secretary of State Colin Powell during his upcoming visit that it is in the interest of Washington's war on terrorism to ensure Pakistan clamps down on Islamic militancy in disputed Kashmir, an Indian official said on July 24.

Powell is due in India on July 27 as part of efforts by a concerned international community to ease bristling tension between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, who came to the brink of war over Kashmir in May.

"It is in the interest of the international community and the US war on terrorism that Pakistan delivers on its commitment, stated publicly and privately, to end cross-border terrorism on a permanent basis," the official said on condition of anonymity.

"This is what we will be putting across to the US Secretary of State," he added.

Powell is the latest in a series of Western trouble-shooters to visit South Asia in recent weeks.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw visited both nuclear rivals last weekend to push India and Pakistan towards resuming a dialogue on Kashmir, the cause of two of their wars since Independence from British rule in 1947.

New Delhi says that Islamabad has reneged on its promise to rein in Islamic militants and cites claims by Indian troops that they killed five rebels sneaking across the Kashmir border even as Straw was visiting.

"Infiltration has slowed down a bit but it has not stopped completely," the official said, pointing to media reports that Pakistan has asked Islamic militant groups fighting New Delhi's rule in Kashmir to lie low this summer.

A report in the 'Indian Express' newspaper from the Southern Pakistani port city of Karachi quoted unnamed sources saying that Islamabad had informed its Western allies it would not be able to keep the militants inactive for long.

"Neither has Pakistan taken any steps to dismantle terrorist training infrastructure in territory under its control. These were the commitments given by Pervez Musharraf to western leaders," the official said.

"We will point this out to the visiting US delegation," he added.

Cross-border infiltration of Islamic rebels battling New Delhi's rule in Kashmir is at the heart of the seven-month-old standoff, sparked by an attack on Parliament in New Delhi by gunmen India claims were sponsored by Pakistan.