India has once again asked the United States to pressurise Pakistan to give up its policy of exporting terror to Jammu and Kashmir.

Pressure from the US resulted in President Pervez Musharraf turning against the Al-Qaeda and Taliban, Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal said in a speech at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace in Washington.

"In fact, Musharraf made a 180 degree turn under US pressure," he said.

Sibal said the US can, if it tries hard, do a 'repeat' of that with regard to cross-border infiltration in Jammu and Kashmir.

"One cannot say at all that the United States doesn't have the means to apply pressure.

"General Pervez Musharraf has simply gone back on his commitments. What I would say is for the United States to determine whether there is room for further pressure," he said.

He said the international community, including the US, is adopting 'double standards' on terrorism.

"It is in a spirit of candour amongst friends that I wish to convey a certain sense of disappointment in India born out of the perception that the international community can do more to ensure an end to cross-border terrorism from Pakistan; not as a favour to India but as part of the international combat against terrorism."

India, Sibal said, is ready to make peace even an 'unreliable' Pakistani leadership.

"An end to cross-border terrorism from Pakistan will set in motion the process of normalisation of relations and resolution of outstanding issues between India and Pakistan through direct bilateral dialogue.

"For India, there can be no accommodation, equivocation or ambiguity on the issue of terrorism. It must end. Nobody is more acutely aware than India of the importance of dialogue. But India has learnt in Lahore and Agra the futility of going through the motion of dialogue, and the risks inherent in its inevitable failure," he said.

In its desire for progress, he said, India remains committed to a composite dialogue process to deal with all issues simultaneously, based on the universal wisdom that the most difficult issues are tackled by first addressing the ones that are easily resolved.

Economic relations provide one important route to move forward, he added.

If Islamabad, as a World Trade Organisation member, grants Most Favoured Nation status to New Delhi and makes progress on the negotiation process for a South Asia Preferential Trade Agreement, it would benefit not only the people of India and Pakistan, but, by moving the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation economic process forward, the entire South Asia, Sibal said.

The absence of movement by Pakistan testifies that its call for dialogue is more for form than substance, he said.