LAHORE: More than 1,000 activists marched in the eastern city of Lahore and urged Pakistan and India to refrain from hostilities after the Mumbai terrorist attacks.

The participants of the rally, organised by the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (Pakistan People's Movement) political party, marched on a main road and dispersed in front of the provincial assembly building.

Men and women carrying Pakistani flags chanted slogans such as 'We want peace, no war” and “'ndia should refrain from allegations' amid reports that Indian investigators suspect that heavily-armed militants who killed nearly 200 people came from Pakistan.

Indian investigators have focused on Pakistan-based Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has denied involvement. Pakistan's government has also denied any role and offered help in investigations.

Separately, elders of North Waziristan tribal district on Sunday offered the Pakistani government complete support if tensions spill over into fighting with India and urged it to halt ongoing military operations against Taliban militants.

'We can send one million armed tribal figthers to the eastern border with India, while the remaining two million can guard the western frontier (with Afghanistan),' tribal elder Malik Mohammad Afzal said in a joint press conference with other local chiefs in Miranshah, main town of North Waziristan.

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, an umbrella group of Taliban militants, also offered unconditional support to the Pakistani government if hostilities break out with India.

'If India attacked any part of Pakistan, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan will put aside all its differences with the government and would not hesitate to give any kind of sacrifice to defend the frontiers,' deputy leader Maulana Faqir Mohammad told reporters in Khar.

Khar is the main town of Bajaur tribal district, where a major Pakistani military operation against Al-Qaeda linked militants has killed more than 1,500 militants since August.