On Board Special Aircraft, July 23 - India Thursday asked Pakistan to 'show the same force' in fighting anti-India terrorists on its soil as it has done in combating the Taliban and other militants ranged against the West.

'Pakistan has taken certain steps like fighting the Taliban in the Swat valley,' External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna told journalists when asked if Islamabad was showing commitment in fighting terrorists who target India.

'We expect Pakistan should go after the terrorists, who are targeting India, with the same force,' he added.

He was interacting with journalists while returning from the Thai island resort of Phuket, where he participated in the 16th ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) Regional Forum (ARF) meeting.

Asked about Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD) chief Hafeez Saeed, suspected to be a mastermind of the Nov 26 Mumbai terrorist attacks, Krishna said Pakistani authorities had made an appeal in court against his recent release. 'The law should take its course,' he said.

'Pakistan should take action against any head of a terrorist organisation working against India,' he added.

India had held the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which morphed into JuD after restrictions, responsible for the Nov 26 Mumbai terrorist attacks.

Earlier in the day, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in Phuket that Islamabad will take action against the LeT if proof was found of its involvement in the Mumbai mayhem.

'We will take action against LeT if any proof is found,' Qureshi told reporters.

'We are waiting for the confessional statement of Kasab though appropriate channels,' Qureshi said, referring to the confession Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone Mumbai attacker in Indian custody, made in a Mumbai court Monday.

Qureshi's comments come days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani met on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh July 16, and agreed to delink action on terror from the composite dialogue process.