Talking to newspersons at Raj Bhawan here, Vajpayee said he did not think the military regime of Pakistan is keen on maintaining good relations with our country.

He said ``it was not possible that you go on making new pacts ignoring the earlier ones.'' And the onus of proving their good intentions lies with Pakistan, specially after the Kargil attack.

The Prime Minister said there was a deplorable disinformation campaign that India was not in favour of talks with Pakistan.

India had initiated peace talks with Pakistan but the process was discontinued due to the Kargil conflict, Vajpayee pointed out. ``We always respond to positive initiative in this regard but Pakistan has to ensure they are willing to respect the Shimlapact and Lahore declaration','' he said.

The Prime Minister said the government was aware of the problems with regard to cross-border terrorism and it was planning a srategy to counter it. When his attention was drawn to the reported statement of Union Home Minister L K Advani that India would rebuff the terrorist activities of Pakistan by counter-terrorism, the Prime Minister said the statement of Advani was distorted.

In reply to another question, Vvajpayee said efforts were on to convince the US to declare Pakistan a `terrorist state'. Asked about his efforts to save deposed Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif from a possible death sentence, Vajpayee said he had joined the global community to mount pressure on the military regime.

``I know my sole efforts or efforts of my country as a whole might add to the woes of Sharif. That is why we have joined others to prepare a consensus in favour of the deposed Pakistan premier'', he reasoned.

The Prime Minister said he had conveyed this to Sharif'sson, who had telephoned him asking for his support. He also made it clear that that was the reason India had not initiated the Pakistan issue at the Commonwealth summit.

On relations with pakistan in view of the changing political scenario in the neighbouring country, he said, ``India is keeping a a close watch over the activities in Pakistan''.

``We only react according to the stand of Pakistan'', he added.