Washington: The United States should pressurise President Pervez Musharraf more to stop the use of Pakistani territory as a base for terrorist attacks on Kashmir, a report by an influential task force has said.

The world fears that the jihad that Pakistan has been supporting in Kashmir could trigger a fourth Indo- Pakistan conflict, the task force set up by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society said.

It urged the US to "press Musharraf harder to end permanently the use of Pakistani territory as a base for jihadi attacks on Kashmir and pro-Taliban efforts against Afghanistan."

Under pressure from the US and others after New Delhi threatened war in December 2001 and again in May 2002, it noted, that Musharraf promised to take steps to stop infiltration permanently across the Kashmir Line of Control (LoC).

"He has done so only partly, however, presumably calculating that the US need for Pakistani co- operation against al Qaida is such that Washington will not press too hard on this issue", it noted.

"But, as the Bush Administration has repeatedly stated, there are no good or bad terrorists, just bad ones. Pakistan should thus be pressed harder to prevent its territory being used by jihadi terrorists to mount attacks against Kashmir", the task force said.

PTI