Ranchi: The US contention that there were no similarities between the Iraq and Pakistan situations was unacceptable to India since available facts contradict Washington's views, the External Affairs minister, Yashwant Sinha said on April 13.

''Pakistan possesses and proliferates weapons of mass destruction. It is also expanding such weapons. It is for this reason that America has banned the Khan Research Laboratory which is at the centre of Pakistan's nuclear programme,'' Sinha told reporters.

If America thought Iraq had a dictatorship, then Pakistan has no democracy and is the ''epicentre and exporter of terrorism'', Sinha observed and added that reconstruction of Iraq should be led by the United Nations.

He, however, evaded a question if India would take pre-emptive action against Pakistan, saying ''I do not announce actions through media''.

Stating that regular firing was taking place on the line of control (LoC), Sinha told reporters that a new strategy had been discussed in the recent internal security meeting attended by the Deputy Prime Minister, L K Advani, to check infiltration and cross-border terrorism.

PTI