New Delhi: The issue of troop deployment along the Indo-Pak border following the December 13 attack on Parliament will be discussed on October 16 at a meeting of National Security Advisory Board (NSAB).

The decision to convene the meeting was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) just before Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's tour of Europe last week.

"The NSAB meeting in which members of the CCS will also be present, will make an in depth study of the situation," Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani had said on October 13, adding the government will take a decision after that.

He said no decision was taken in that CCS meeting because at that time elections in Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan had not got over.

The government had been maintaining that the troops would remain deployed till the completion of J&K elections so as to gauge how Pakistan behaved in these.

The troops mobilisation at the border was made in December 2001 in the backdrop of rising Indo-Pak tension after the terrorist attack on Parliament.

Advani said Pakistan and the terrorists groups sponsored by it spared no effort to see that elections did not take place but failed.

PTI