Mukherjee warns Pak, tells it to 'act'

NEW DELHI: Sending a strong message across the border, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said if Pakistan did not "act" in the wake of the Mumbai terror strikes, then there could be a situation that India "doesn't want."

"I expect them to act. Otherwise it will not be business as usual. There would be situation that we do not want," Mukherjee said intervening in the debate on Mumbai terror attacks in Rajya Sabha.

At the same breath, Mukherjee also made it clear that the government was not suggesting an "eye for an eye" approach in the wake of the terror attacks.

"I have been listening to views to be too strong in our formulation and in our approaches. Eye for eye is something which I do not subscribe to. That way, everyone could have become blind," he said invoking the saying of Mahatma Gandhi.

"I have never accused the Pakistan government of being responsible. Very carefully I used the word 'elements' in Pakistan," he added.

"I have told the Pakistani government to act, it would help them and would also help us," he said.

Mukherjee said that mustering international support in the wake of the Mumbai attacks do not amount to inviting intervention in the Kashmir issue.

"There is no scope for a third party intervention in Kashmir," he said.