UNITED NATIONS, Sept 15: India will never compromise with ‘cross-border terrorism’ in Kashmir, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in an address to the UN summit on Thursday.

Mr Singh alleged India had faced ‘incursions by Pakistan-based militants’ in Kashmir for years.

“We shall never succumb to or compromise with terror, in Kashmir or elsewhere,” Mr Singh said.

The Indian premier insisted that no space could ever be yielded to terrorism.

“We must firmly reject any notion that there is any cause that justifies it,” he said. “No cause could ever justify the indiscriminate killing of innocent men, women and children.”

On development issues, Mr Singh took UN members to task for failing to live up to the Millennium Development Goals of poverty eradication set in 2000.

“Five years later, we find that the international community is generous in setting goals, but parsimonious in pursuing them.”

“We must make greater efforts,” he urged, adding that the world was waiting for a ‘new deal’ that could spur development and create jobs on a global scale.—AFP