Islamabad: Claiming that infiltration across the Line Of Control (LoC) has been minimised, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said the threat of war between New Delhi and Islamabad has receded in recent months and ruled out a nuclear confrontation between the two countries due to the prevalence of balance in conventional arms.

"Nothing is happening on the Line of Control and this has been recognised by everyone that definitely infiltration is not there or it has been minimised," he told a television network interview.

Musharraf who returned from his week-long tour of US a day earlier said, "We have already said that nothing is happening across the Line of Control and both the US and even India agreed that either it stopped or it has been minimised."

Replying to a question he said that the area that separated the two countries in Kashmir was the most treacherous as there were high mountains. It was impossible for anyone to seal the border and give a guarantee that nothing would happen across the LoC.

"Even 700,000 Indian troops in Kashmir have not been able to ensure this - so asking Pakistan to give a kind of guarantee is not realistic," he told CNN in an interview.

On how perilous was the potential nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan, he said, "It is not as perilous as being quoted because of the conventional balance that exists between the two countries."

"The danger of conflict, yes previously the danger was there in that the Indians were showing an intention through their rhetoric and also they developed the capability when they moved their troops onto the border."

"But now the intention seems to have receded because the rhetoric has gone down but the capability of forces still in eyeball to eyeball contact, so to that extent the capability exists and therefore the danger", Musharraf was quoted by the official APP news agency as saying.

On the chances of nuclear confrontation, he said, "When we talk of nuclear conflagration, I would differ, we know that there is a conventional arms balance between the two countries. And I am reasonably sure that because of this balance the conflict will never go to the limit to the unconventional mode."

PTI