New Delhi has asked the US to apply strict accountability criteria in defence assistance being given to Pakistan for operations against terrorists and insurgents on Afghanistan border . <br/><br/>Addressing a think tank audience at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington, Foreign secretary Nirupama Rao said, India’s past experiences reveal that Pakistan may use this for generating tension and hostile actions against India.<br/><br/>Signaling an unrelentingly robust stance towards Pakistan unless it cracks down on sponsoring terrorism against India, Mrs Rao said, New Delhi's restraint should not be mistaken for weakness.She said,New Delhi has the capacity to deal effectively with those that pursue destructive agenda against India and its people. <br/><br/>The foreign secretary ruled out resumption of composite dialogue till Islamabad guarantees that terrorism could be controlled by its authorities.Our correspondent reports,India also ruled out scaling down its presence in Afghanistan, a Pakistani wish that is playing on American minds.<br/><br/>AIR correspondent reports that ahead of the visit to Washington next week by a high-level Pakistani team led by its foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi which will seek from the Obama administration drones, fighter jets, and a civilian nuclear deal at par with the US-India agreement ,India has questioned US messaging on Afghanistan, saying it is vital for the international community to stay the course in that country and any reintegration process should include only those who abjure violence and terrorism and are willing to abide by the values of democracy, pluralism and human rights. <br/><br/>India has made it very clear that there is no good taliban or bad taliban, calling it just an oximoron.<br/><br/>There is every possibility that the Taliban could resurrect themselves as they have done in the past even when people think they have been defeated or their hardcore elements, destroyed. One cannot stress enough the need to avoid compromises or differentiation between the so-called shades of the Taliban.<br/>