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Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday rejected Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's suggestion that India may be planning a nuclear test saying his remarks in Washington were an attempt to mislead international community.
Hours after Musharraf made the charge, Vajpayee told an election meeting in Agra that India has decided not to do any more tests, a reference apparently to the unilateral moratorium decided after the 1998 Pokhran tests.
He said Islamabad's propaganda was 'old tactics of Pakistan to mislead the world community'.
"Musharraf has stated in the United States that India is going to have another nuclear test very soon. But Washington has told him (Musharraf) that we know that they (Indians) are not doing it," he said, wondering whether this was the way Islamabad wanted to extend its hand of friendship to India.
The prime minister also ruled out any third party mediation in resolution of the Kashmir issue and said, "We will not tolerate it."
Pakistan had even told Kazakhstan President to mediate on the Kashmir issue, the prime minister said.
"We are ready for talks but there has to be some basis for resumption of dialogue," he said.
The first basis, he pointed out, was a total stop to the infiltration of militants into India from across the border. Mentioning Pakistan's charge about India's involvement in the abduction of US journalist Daniel Pearl, Vajpayee said, "How can we do it. Karachi is yours. Military regime is yours."
Recalling the massacre of Sikhs in Chattisinghpura in J&K during the visit of former US President Bill Clinton in 2000, the Prime Minister said that Pakistan had then alleged that it was engineered by India.
Referring to the terrorist attack on Parliament, he said had the militants managed to get into Parliament, there would have been a massacre. But security forces were alert and they gunned them down, he said.
On the arrest of Omar Sheikh, Vajpayee said that he was in Pakistani authorities' possession but it was now they have declared that he had been arrested.
"I do not believe that such people can live in Pakistan clandestinely without the government's connivance," Vajpayee added.
There was hardly any point in talking to Pakistan if it says that it cannot control such people, he said.
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