Wednesday, May 3 2006 10:01 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Islamabad: In the wake of the massacre of Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir, India yesterday (May 2, 2006) asserted that 'more remains to be done' by Pakistan to curb cross-border terrorism and said last year's quake saw the 'public rehabilitation' of terrorist organisations and their involvement in relief work.

"Unfortunately, more remains to be done in curbing the menace of cross-border terrorism. Despite some variations in infiltration patterns, terrorist training, communications and support continue, waxing and waning with the seasons and the political climate," Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Shivshankar Menon said.

"Worse, the October earthquake has seen the public rehabilitation of terrorist organisations and their involvement in earthquake relief," he said in an address to the Supreme Court Bar Association in Lahore, the text of which was circulated by the Indian High Commission here.

Many militant groups including Jamat-ud-Dawa (JUD), which was banned by US on Friday as a terrorist organisation, were permitted to carry out relief work after the October 8 earthquake. JUD is the renamed version of Lashkar-e-Toiba, suspected to be behind the massacre of Hindus in Doda.

Menon said that while considerable sections in Pakistan expressed happiness about Indo-Pak ties, "Official Pakistan, however, sometimes says that India must solve Jammu and Kashmir if other steps are to have meaning or continue."

"This is extreme and is a partial view. It wrongly assumes that Pakistan has no interest in broader relationship with India and pays no cost for hostility to India and ignores how confidence building can reinforce the effort to resolve issues," he said.