Islamabad: Continuing its anti-India tirade, Pakistan on August 18 accused New Delhi of running more than 55 militant training camps across the Line of Control to carry out subversive activities against it.

"We believe that there are several terrorist-training camps in India across the LoC and Pakistan-India border," Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan told reporters at the weekly briefing.

Khan said according to Pakistan's estimates, there were more than 55 camps currently being run to target Pakistan and to fuel sectarian differences in the country.

"This is not a secret. The Indians know about it and we know about it," he said, adding, "this apparatus, infrastructure of terrorist training camps, must be dismantled by India if it is serious in its pursuit of peace in South Asia."

Islamabad's accusation came a day after it charged India with amassing troops in the Dras-Kargil sector for military action against Pakistan, a charge denied by New Delhi.

It also appeared to counter India's assertion that Pakistan continued to aid and abet cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.

The spokesman chose to skirt a question as to why Pakistan had not taken up the issue with India during the Agra Summit in July 2001.

PTI