Washington: The US is growing increasingly disillusioned and unhappy with Pakistan in the wake of President Pervez Musharraf's broken pledge to end support to cross-border terrorism against India permanently, US officials said in Washington.

The officials, accusing Islamabad of complicating anti-terrorism efforts and straining a crucial alliance, claimed that despite General Musharraf's pledge in June to stop the flow of Islamic militants into Kashmir, Pakistan still allows them into the tinderbox region, a media report said on December 2.

Pakistan has admitted before to hosting Islamic militants, who have perpetrated attacks in Kashmir. US officials have warned Pakistan not to underestimate India's military reaction if there are further attacks this winter, it said.

"Musharraf has made so many unfulfilled promises and pledges to the US that his credibility here is at an all-time low," a US diplomat was quoted as saying by 'The Wall Street Journal' in Washington.

The US officials were also dissatisfied with actions such as Pakistan's inability or unwillingness to curb ISI, continued efforts to build up Gulbuddin Hekmatyar against President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan and provision of nuclear weapons technology to North Korea in return for missiles, the report said.

While few expect an open rift as Washington focuses on a possible war in Iraq, the US diplomat said, "There are too many contentious issues coming to a head, and the relationship is skating on very thin ice."

PTI