United Nations: In the first major clash in the current session of the United Nations General Assembly, India told Islamabad that Pakistan's combat against international terrorism is based on one per cent intentions and 99 per pretensions.

"This ratio needs to be reversed if Pakistan expects us to take its commitment to end cross-border terrorism against India seriously," India's Political Councilor Harsh Vardhan Shringla asserted.

Stung by some plain-speaking by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee during his address to the General Assembly about Pakistan sponsoring terrorism, Islamabad's United Nations Ambassador Munir Akram described India as "mother of terrorism" and accused it of sponsoring terrorism against "each one of its neighbours".

India had sponsored terrorism in Sri Lanka and its intelligence agencies directed groups of Kashmiris to "perpetrate" terrorist actions in "Indian-occupied Kashmir as a means of intimidating Kashmiris", he alleged while exercising the right of reply.

What apparently provoked Akram was Vajpayee pointing out that Pakistan has had made a public admission for the first time that it is sponsoring terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir when its President Pervez Musharraf offered to encourage a general cessation of violence within Kashmir in return for "reciprocal obligation and restraints".

In a highly restrained reply, Shringla took objection to Akram using the Assembly to indulge in abuse rather than offering views for which forum is meant for.

PTI