New Delhi: Terrorist strikes like June 28 attack on an Army camp near Jammu would not derail the peace initiative with Pakistan undertaken by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Defence Minister George Fernandes said on June 30.

"The Prime Minister has started the peace initiative with Pakistan. If someone across the border wants to derail this process by directing such attacks, he will not succeed," Fernandes said after flagging-in the Indo-Nepal Army expedition which successfully scaled Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse.

He said the two terrorists were Pakistanis and belonged to the Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit. "No one can scare us (by such attacks)", he said while condemning the incident.

Two armed terrorists dressed had carried out a suicide attack on an Army camp in Jammu killing 12 personnel and injuring seven others before being shot dead.

Replying questions on the "alertness" of the Army, Fernandes said, "Army has always been on alert, this was a peace station and the attackers were 'fidayeens' who wanted to commit suicide."

Asked about the current level of infiltration from across the border, he said "it is going on at the same level as it was before".

PTI