May 23 :    May 23:  From Canada to the United Kingdom, the international chorus for Pakistan to stop sending militants across the Line of Control into India is growing with the US sounding the warning that it was watching if infiltration had dropped. In a statement issued yesterday, Pakistan had indicated that it would not allow terrorist activity from its soil and from territory controlled by it, meaning occupied Kashmir. US state department spokesman Philip Reeker called for an end to infiltration and said Washington is conducting its own, careful assessment whether it had gone down or not, indicating that President Pervez Musharraf was under surveillance. It was also apparent that the international community is asking India to resume the talks as a concession to Musharraf in exchange for Islamabad keeping its word to stop infiltration. Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair enunciated the quid pro quo the international community expects from India. 'It is essential in the end that Pakistan stops support for any form of terrorism in Kashmir or anywhere else in the region and that at the same time India is prepared to offer a proper system of dialogue to resolve all issues, including disputes over Kashmir,' he said. British foreign secretary Jack Straw is expected in South Asia next week. He will be followed by US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage, who is leaving for the subcontinent on June 4. Both will carry a message of restraint for India and an exhortation for Pakistan to come good on its promise. 'The situation is a tense one,' US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, referring to the stepped-up exchange of fire on the border. 'There is no question but that the entire administration has been in touch with associates in Pakistan and in India,' he said. His efforts to keep in 'touch', however, got stuck in bad phone lines. Rumsfeld said he had tried to phone George Fernandes, but the Indian defence minister's attempt to call back failed. The phone kept ringing for Musharraf, though. UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and US secretary of state Colin Powell spoke to him. In New York, a spokesman for Annan said the secretary-general told the Pakistan President: 'There can be no tolerance for acts of terrorism, especially across the Line of Control.' Behind the sabre-rattling that has marked the past week, the Indian government has been quietly using a scheduled visit of the defence secretary, Yogendra Narain, to the US to convince Washington of Delhi's urgency. Defence ministry sources said Narain and the Indian delegation harped on the May 14 attack on the Kaluchak army camp to tell the US Musharraf was doing little to stop infiltration, which had increased. If Musharraf does carry through his promise to end infiltration, the pressure on India to reopen talks will escalate. For now, though, the Pakistani general will have to put up with promptings from as far away as Canada. Canadian Deputy Prime Minister John Manley said: 'The Pakistanis must take serious efforts to prevent incursions from their territory into the district that is in dispute.'