Islamabad - Nuclear-armed Pakistan edged to the brink of war with India when its president received a threatening call from someone posing as Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee following last week's Mumbai attacks, a media report said Saturday.

The caller, who was put through to President Asif Ali Zardari late in the day on November 28 without verification of his claimed identity, warned that India would take "military action if Islamabad failed to immediately act against the supposed perpetrators of the Mumbai killings."

Washington, Dec. 6: Inflamed passions across India and Pakistan must be controlled to prevent another war between India and Pakistan.

“People of both the nations will have to control inflamed public passion and manipulative politicians too,” Austin Bay reports in his column for the Washington Post.

“Statesmen will have to confront the terrorists responsible for the heinous crime,”Bay comments.

Large scale public anger can be witnessed across India after the deadliest terror attack to have ever hit India, shook Mumbai last week.

There are fears that India could attack Pakistan and Indian and Pakistani media reflect this speculation in their war of words.

London, Dec. 6 : Former Pakistan President General (retired) Pervez Musharraf has said that “before accusing Pakistan, India must understand the role of Pakistan in the war against terrorism and must work with it to eliminate the curse of terrorism.”

As far he was concerned, Musharraf said the motto of his life was and will continue to be “Pakistan first”.

In an interview with a private TV channel, Musharraf said everyone must play a role for the progress of Pakistan.

Washington, Dec. 6 : Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani has said that terrorists nabbed by Islamabad will not be judged by their causes, but by their actions.

“We are not going to judge terrorists by their causes. We are going to judge them by their actions. So, basically, anybody who engages in terrorism is a terrorist for us, irrespective of what cause they espouse,” Haqqani declared.

Haqqani claimed that Pakistan has begun to share actionable intelligence with India and the United States in so far as the Mumbai terror attacks were concerned.

Istanbul, Dec. 6 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, who is on an official visit to Turkey, has said that his country is determined to carry on fighting terrorists on its soil, and added that last week’s attacks in Mumbai, will not affect Pakistan’s efforts to combat the menace.

“The focus of the government of Pakistan has been anti-terror.... We will continue with our fight against the perpetrators and stateless actors of terrorism,” the Dawn quoted Zardari, as saying.

In a significant development, Pakistan had stopped the visit of famous Ghazal singer Ghulam Ali to India.

Ghulam Ali was scheduled to visit eight cities of India and perform there.

The ghazal maestro was to kick-off his umpteenth India visit - this time with Bihar's Rajgir Mahotsava on Saturday.

After this sudden development Ghulam Ali told an Indian English daily over phone that, "Hum sadme mein hain. Hamein roka gaya hai (I am traumatised. I have been stopped from travelling)."