By IOL South Asia Correspondent

New Delhi, November 25 (IslamOnline) - As part of its diplomatic offensive against what it calls Pakistan's "cross-border terrorism", India on Sunday, November 24, brought out a "White Paper" on the subject in the form of a book and sent it to governments of various countries and Indian missions abroad.

The book entitled "Pakistan's Involvement in Terrorism Against India", attempts to show that far from removing terrorist infrastructure existing in Pakistan, President Musharraf regime has merely carried out "cosmetic exercises" to address the concerns of the western nations, especially the United States.

The long-awaited book did not catch much media attention due to the sudden attack on the Jammu temple last night. India has been for many years promising to publish such a book.

The book compiles a list of terrorist training camps, their locations, offices and addresses of leaders of the terrorist outfits, numerous cases of attacks carried out by them in India, the links between these outfits and Pakistan government agencies including ISI and claims and statements made by terrorists.

The 188-page book has a section on the background of Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who was released in Lahore on November 18 after being under house arrest. He now heads the political wing of LeT called Jamaat-al-Dawaa. Indian deputy prime minister today said that release of Saeed was directly responsible for the attack on Jammu temple.

In recent weeks, while India fights off mounting western pressure to start dialogue with Islamabad, New Delhi has stepped up rhetoric against Pakistan. So much so that Indian rulers have made it clear that from now on they will comment on Pakistan's internal affairs.

Pakistan too may be compiling such a book soon. Pakistan maintains that RAW, Indian equivalent of CIA, is responsible for many violent incidents in Pakistan. While India prefers "Pakistani agents" dead, Pakistan captures Indian agents alive and marches them in front of the media and foreign diplomats.

Indian foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha today bitterly attacked the West for what he called "adopting double-standards" in dealing with India's concerns on Pakistan-sponsored cross-border terrorism. Sinha asked for economic sanctions and "all kinds of pressure" on Islamabad to put a complete and permanent stop to infiltration.

"If the international community wants, Pakistan will give up its acts of terrorism against India in no time. There is obviously some disconnect between what they tell us and what they tell Pakistan," Sinha said in an interview to Tim Sebastian on BBC World's Hard Talk programme aired today.

Sinha said he stood by his remarks in London that the international community has lost its moral right to advise India on the issue of terrorism vis-a-vis Pakistan since it was making a "distinction between the good terrorist who operates in India, and especially in Jammu and Kashmir and the bad terrorist who operates elsewhere".

Asked why India was not talking to Pakistan, Sinha shot back: "is the West talking to Osama bin Laden? "Terrorism that Pakistan is unleashing against India is as bad as the terrorism which the Taliban and al-Qaeda was unleashing in Afghanistan and elsewhere. And, if they are not to be talked to, they have to be dealt with in another manner," he said.