Mumbai: In the backdrop of the ongoing war of words between India and Pakistan, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on September 27 emphatically ruled out any meaningful dialogue with the neighbouring nation until cross-border terrorism "comes to a complete end".

"BJP is firm on its long-standing position that any meaningful dialogue with Pakistan can not be held till cross-border terrorism comes to a complete end," BJP national president M Venkaiah Naidu said.

He lauded Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee for his "outspoken and inspiring speech" at the United Nations General Assembly, saying, "This is the tough and blunt message that Islamabad deserves to hear."

Vajpayee has exposed Pakistan's complicity in the cross-border terrorism being inflicted on India by questioning the basis on which General Pervez Musharraf offered, in his speech at the UN, to stop violence in Kashmir, Naidu said.

The Prime Minister had forthrightly stated that India cannot be blackmailed into negotiations under the threat of terrorism and voiced the country's determination to stamp out the scourge on its own, the BJP president said.

Alluding to a Pakistani Minister's recent statement admitting that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was harboured in Karachi, Naidu said, "Pakistan continues to be safe haven for Dawood and his accomplices in the serial blasts in Mumbai."

Pakistan's insincerity in the fight against terrorism is clearly established by its consistent refusal to hand over 20 most wanted masterminds of terrorism to India, he added.

PTI