ISLAMABAD, April 2: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said on Friday that Pakistan was doing more than anybody else in combating terrorism and nobody was in a position to ask it to do more.

"We are not under any pressure to produce things and nobody is in a position to tell us to do more", the minister told BBC Television.

Elaborating he said Pakistan had deployed about 70,000 soldiers on the border areas, much more than soldiers brought by the US.

He said the number of US troops in operation was 13,000 while there were 6,100 Nato troops in the region.

"So nobody is in a position to tell us to do more, we have done more than anybody else", he added.

Replying to a question he said Pakistan army was a well-trained organization. It is a big army and goes into operations with proper planning. But even when with good planning it did not mean that there are no casualties, he said.

He said the resistance was stiff, these people were prepared to die, they are prepared to kill.

Mr Kasuri said that at least eight soldiers were killed in cold blood, which was not characteristic of tribal people. Tribes have certain traditions, they follow certain conventions, "I mean they may use this as a bargaining tool to get some people released or for ransom." But they do not behave in this way. These are foreigners who have done it and they are determined to die.

He said President Gen Pervez Musharraf had offered them to surrender and give up militancy and they would not be handed over to any foreign country. He said Pakistan has captured the largest number of Al Qaeda and Taliban people, more than even the US had.

"We have captured about 600 of them in the past and during the recent operations we captured 150 to 160 more people", he added.

Dispelling an impression that no significant people had been caught during the recent operations, he said that first of all nobody was in a position to say whether some one has been caught or not; secondly one significant person had died.

Besides, he said, one significant person, 'the leader of the movement in Uzbekistan' had been injured and "we are investigating 150 to 160 people captured during the operation."

Responding to a question, he said, Pakistan had never talked about the presence of high-value targets in the area rather it was the international media talking about it. "We simply said that resistance is so big that we feel that there are high-value targets there", he added.

He said the high-value people did not necessarily mean Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Osama Bin Laden, rather they might be many. .-APP