Kuala Lumpur: Pakistan sponsored cross-border terrorism had "become worse" after the failure of the Agra Summit, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said on September 26.

Ever since the Agra Summit "India has been subject to the worst form of cross-border terrorism," Sinha said, speaking at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) here.

"It has gone on and on and on, and we have continued to act with restraint," he said, adding that Pakistan had also failed in its commitment earlier this year to halt infiltration.

Referring to the terrorist attack on Swaminarayan temple in Gujarat on September 24, he said India's "patience has been sorely tested" by the massacre and that it bore all the hallmarks of the earlier assaults carried on the Parliament and Jammu and Kashmir Assembly building.

The two terrorists who attacked the temple came with AK-47 rifles, lots of explosives, hand grenades, dry fruits and other eatables, so that they could dig in and stay there for some time.

"This is exactly what the terrorists who had attacked Parliament had done. This is the style and tactics employed by the terrorists in all the previous attacks which have followed after the attack on Parliament," Sinha said.

"We have evidence now that in all these previous attacks there was the hand of organisations called Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hizbul Mujahedin both based in Pakistan," Sinha said, adding Pakistani nationals had been involved in all the previous attacks.

"As soon as we have definite, firm proof, we will come out and share it with the rest of the world," Sinha told the gathering.

The External Affairs Minister said "the simple point India is making is "remove the gun from our heads and we are prepared to talk to you".

Speaking on "Indian foreign policy in the new millennium", at the institute, Sinha said "to preserve our freedom, to extend our autonomy and to reinforce Democracy at home with a Democratic world abroad have been the fundamental building blocks of India's foreign policy ever since our Independence."

PTI