ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: A government spokesman on Sunday blasted Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani for blaming the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency for acts of terrorism in India, saying the world does not take his extremist comments seriously.

“The world is quite clear that Advani is an extremist Hindu leader that’s why it does not take seriously what he says about Pakistan,” President Pervez Musharraf’s spokesman Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi told AFP.

“He straightaway blames Pakistan without even waiting for an inquiry or investigation into any incident.”

“Advani’s attempt to malign the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) is to divert international and domestic attention from the failure of his own security forces in controlling law and order inside India,” Gen Qureshi said.

“His pointing the finger at ISI is like the pot calling the kettle black.”

Advani on Saturday called on the international community to view the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency in the same way it does Al Qaeda network.

“The world is conscious that Al Qaeda and Taliban are the prime source of terrorism in the world. But they are not realising that ISI is also the same,” the Press Trust of India quoted Advani as saying.

Gen Qureshi said no country in the world had done so much in the international war against terrorism as Pakistan. And in Pakistan, it is the ISI which plays a key role in the drive against terrorism.

He said Pakistan had caught more than 400 Al Qaeda suspects since the US-led war against terrorism was launched last year.

He said the ISI had also been fighting against terrorists inside Pakistan.

“The world is very clear that ISI is in the forefront of the war against terrorism,” Gen Qureshi said.

“It is a typical trade mark of Indian leaders to externalise problems when they fail to maintain law and order in their country,” he said.