India's foreign minister has refused to confirm if he will meet his Pakistani counterpart for talks aimed at ending the crisis between the two countries. Both ministers are due to attend a South Asian regional meeting which is taking place in Nepal.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, has praised Pakistani efforts to defuse the crisis with India. Pakistan detained militants whom New Delhi suspects of being involved in the attack on the country's parliament in early December.
India has said it would agree to talks with Pakistan, but only if it dropped what New Delhi is describing as its "anti-Indian mentality".
Pakistan has said that India is continuing the build-up of its forces on their common border. Tensions between the two nuclear powers remain high over last month's attack on the Indian parliament.
An army official in Pakistani-administered Kashmir described the situation as "still highly explosive and dangerous".
The Indian Defence Ministry has denied Delhi is continuing its troops build up, saying the mobilisation was "more or less complete".
Earlier, hopes were growing of a diplomatic breakthrough to avoid military confrontation between the nuclear powers.
The Indian Government has cautiously welcomed Pakistan's arrest of several militants, members of Islamic groups Delhi says were behind the attack on the Indian parliament last month.
The India Minister of State for Home Affairs, Idi Swami, said that India should be helped to deal with Islamic militants in the same way as the international community has supported American action against those who carried out the attacks on 11 September.
