ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Saturday warned India that any adventurism against Pakistan would be met with force.

In a television interview, he said: “I would like to warn against any precipitate action by the Indian government against Pakistan. This would lead to very serious repercussions and must not be done.”

He condemned the terrorist act against Indian parliament, saying “we are against any such terrorist acts anywhere in the world, we strongly condemn it.”

Twelve people, including five attackers, were killed in the shootout between the attackers and security guards on the premises of parliament.

The president said, “we will cooperate as long as there is evidence against any individual or any group.”

He said “we would not like Pakistani territory to be used for any such terrorist act anywhere in the world and that also includes India.”

“We would surely expect proof and evidence of involvement of any groups in Pakistan in this terrorist act. We will take action against anybody involved in Pakistan in these acts, if at all proved,” he said.

Whatever our analysis says the proof is not adequate at the moment. In fact, there are lot of indications which may indicate the design behind this operation.

“So we would like to be very sure with concrete evidence that this is not the case and this is a terrorist act and if at all any one has been involved from Pakistan we would like to move against him,” he said.

Pakistan armed forces were on high alert following threatening statements by Indian leaders after the attack on parliament in New Delhi on Thursday.

On Friday, President Musharraf said that India was trying to use Afghanistan to damage Islamabad’s interests and asserted his government was not sponsoring any violence in occupied Kashmir.

“India just wants one thing. They want to damage us. Anything they want to do in Afghanistan, the purpose is only one: How to do something which will be used against Pakistan, that will damage their cause. That is their sole purpose,” he said in an interview to the Far Eastern Economic Review.—Agencies

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