India has vowed to keep its army mobilised on the border with Pakistan and crack down on militancy in Jammu and Kashmir in the latest development in the dispute which has brought the two nuclear rivals to the brink of war.
Outlining government policy at the opening of a new session of parliament, President K.R. Narayanan said military deployment would be maintained until India was convinced Pakistan had ended support for militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir.
"We keep hearing calls of resumption of dialogue with Pakistan. Terrorism and dialogue cannot go together," he said.
"India is prepared to resume the dialogue process with Pakistan, provided Islamabad satisfies us that it has indeed taken effective steps to end the training, equipping and financing of the terrorists and stop their infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India," he said.
He also pledged tough action against militants in Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state, comparing the campaign there to a bloody crackdown on Sikh separatists in Punjab in the 1980s and early 1990s.
More than 20,000 people died - more than half of them civilians - in the crackdown in Punjab, which borders Pakistan, and separatist militancy was virtually eradicated.
"We shall triumph in our mission to root out terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir in the same way that we did in Punjab in the last decade," Mr Narayanan told parliament.
But he also promised government action to help Kashmir's tourist-dependent economy recover from a 12-year insurgency and "free and fair" state elections later in the year.
It was the parliament's first working session since it was attacked by gunmen on December 13. Fourteen people died in the attack, blamed by India on Pakistan-based Kashmiri separatists.