Washington: India has said it has no complaints with regard to US efforts to persuade Pakistan to stop cross-border terrorism but made it clear that asking it to resume Indo-Pak dialogue despite continuing infiltration would amount to "double standards" on terrorism.

The US and other governments have talked repeatedly to Islamabad to end infiltration of terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir and wind up the camps and infrastructure of militants but they failed, and India is not blaming Washington for the failure, National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra told reporters on the talks he held with his US counterpart Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell and other officials.

The principal secretary to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said Washington had made "sincere efforts" to talk to Pakistan to end cross-border terrorism but its efforts in Islamabad "were not satisfactory from our point of view. So you have to make a distinction between these two.

"You have to look at it from two different angles. One is whether the US administration and other governments did what they promised, namely to talk to Pakistan to end cross-border terrorism. The answer is of course they did. They did speak repeatedly to Islamabad to end infiltration, to wind up the camps and the infrastructure of the terrorists. So we cannot complain on that score," he told reporters.

"So far as double standards are concerned, there is a general plea that talks should take place between India and Pakistan. Our answer is: How can we talk with cross- border terrorism still going on? So, when you (US and others) forget cross-border terrorism and urge us to talk, that is a double standard on terrorism," Mishra told reporters.

He said it should also be made clear that "we cannot blame the US for the fact that cross-border terrorism has not ended. The blame lies somewhere else. But I repeat they did make sincere efforts in Islamabad.

"... They made efforts and we are grateful for making the efforts. They did not succeed, cross border terrorism continues and, therefore, there can be no dialogue with Pakistan," Mishra said.

Despite their failure, Mishra described as "very satisfactory" the result of his discussions with National Powell, saying this was because the US despite its failure, at least this time during his talks here, did not urge India to resume dialogue with Pakistan.

"The purpose of my visit to Washington," said Mishra, "was to renew my contacts, take a look at Indo-US relations, where they are going, how they are developing and to talk about regional and other issues which concern us and which concern them. The wide-ranging discussions with all of (the US policymakers were very satisfactory."

Mishra revealed that during his talks with US policymakers, "The question of co- operation in peaceful uses of space, nuclear energy and high technology was discussed fairly extensively, and we hope some progress will be made."

He said, when he goes to Pentagon and meets with Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, "We will be talking about defence co-operation in general."

On being asked whether there was demarche in India by the US, instigated by Pakistan, to the effect that Islamabad was perturbed by what New Delhi was doing in Afghanistan, Mishra replied, saying that "The incident is behind us." He refused to elaborate.

Asked about the triumph of the Islamic fundamentalists in the Pakistani elections in some areas of the country, Mishra said the developing situation in Pakistan was discussed during his talks here.

On the North Korean Pakistan-aided nuclear weapons development programme, Mishra pointed out that this concerns not only India but a lot of other countries. "It is not a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan," he added.

About activities of the al-Qaida in Bangladesh threatening India's North East, Mishra said, "India is fully conscious of the dangers of terrorism finding another haven. In one way or another India is thinking of drawing the attention of the Bangladesh government to this."

On Iraq, Mishra said the US policymakers he talked to accepted the Indian position on Iraq that Baghdad must comply with the Security Council resolution. If it does not, it is the Security Council, which must take action to enforce its resolution.

PTI