India denies assisting militants

Pakistani soldier The army says that it capturing territory all over South Waziristan

India's foreign minister has denied charges by a Pakistani army official that his country has been assisting militants in South Waziristan.

SM Krishna said developments in Pakistan were of "their own making" and there was no effective government.

A Pakistani army spokesman said recently that it had evidence of Indian "involvement" with the insurgents.

Pakistan's army is engaged in a major offensive against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in South Waziristan.

Pakistani's chief military spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas said recently that Pakistani troops had recovered "Indian arms, ammunition, literature and medical equipment" from Sherwangi, a key militant base.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik had also recently alleged that India was supplying arms to the Taliban.

SM Krishna has denied both the charges.

"We have absolutely nothing to do with whatever is happening in Balochistan or whatever is happening within Pakistan. I think it is their own making," Mr Krishna was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.

"I don't think that there is any effective government functioning there."

Pakistan's offensive in South Waziristan has sparked a string of suicide bomb attacks in the country.

About 300 people have been killed in the attacks since mid-October.

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