Pakistan investigating group over terrorism

Pakistan's President is promising to crack down on a Pakistani-based Islamic group if his government finds evidence to support US claims it aids terrorism.

US President George W Bush added Lashkar-e-Tayyaba to a US list of terrorist groups.

Washington asked Pakistan to ban the group and freeze its assets.

"If we find evidence of it, we would like to move against them," said General Parvez Musharraf, who was visiting the southern commercial center of Guangdong province on the final day of an official trip to China.

India accuses Lashkar-e-Tayyaba of supporting a December 13 attack on the Indian parliament building that killed 15 people.

Musharraf's government has denied Indian accusations that its military intelligence service also aided the attack.

"We are already taking measures to move against all groups who are involved in any form of terrorism anywhere in the world," Musharraf said, without giving any details.

On Saturday, he called India arrogant and rash after New Delhi said it would withdraw its ambassador from Islamabad and cut rail and bus links.

Both sides have sent extra soldiers to their tense border and exchanged artillery and small arms fire.

The Pakistani leader is in China on a visit meant to reassure Chinese leaders that their decades-old alliance is sound, despite his government's growing ties with Washington in the war on terror.