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US reviewing reports on possibility of Indo-Pak war: NYT

Amidst reports of rising tension along border between India and Pakistan and growing chances of a military conflict, the United States has intensified surveillance in the region for evidence whether the two countries were deploying their nuclear arsenal.

The US national security staff is reviewing a stream of intelligence reports suggesting that tension along Indo-Pak border is rising and that chances of a military conflict have grown considerably, the New York Times reported on Friday.

"We are significantly more worried today than were several days ago," a senior member of President George Bush's national security staff was quoted as saying.

Another unnamed official said the CIA and the national security agency were intensifying their surveillance of the border areas and looking for any evidence that the two sides were putting their nuclear arsenals on alert.

"So far there is no evidence of that," he said.

India had privately hinted to Washington that it would take no unprovoked military action against Pakistan as long as US-led diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis were on, the official told the daily.

PTI

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