New Delhi: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on September 26 said the US pressure on Pakistan to abandon support to terrorism appears not to be working and asserted that India will have to fight its own battle against the menace.

"It seems so," Vajpayee said when asked whether pressure from US and India's own effort was not working on Pakistan to change its stand towards supporting terrorism.

He was talking to reporters after speaking at the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) here.

Asked how India would frustrate terrorists attack like the one on the temple in Gandhinagar, he said, "by being bold, vigilant."

"Militants will not succeed in their demands. Our soldiers have demonstrated. India is vigilant and in a position to meet the challenges."

PTI