Click to play videoNew Delhi: Twenty-four hours after Jamaat-ud-Daawa chief and Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed's release there has been no clear word from Islamabad on whether he will be rearrested or whether the Pakistani government will appeal against the court ruling.
In Islamabad, US envoy Richard Holbrooke privately expressed dismay but in public refused to comment saying it was Pakistan's internal affair, so it was left to Delhi to sound tough and uncompromising.
Sources have warned that India's policy towards Pakistan will be terrorism-centric in the months ahead until such time as there is a perceptible change in Pakistan's actions. Sources also say that India wants peaceful and prosperous relations with Pakistan but that our objectives cannot be met as long as cross-border terrorism continues.
That point will be reiterated to US Assistant Secretary William Burns when he comes visiting next week. Sources are underscoring that Indian and US policies on Pakistan do not entirely converge.
"America acts only in its national interests. It will not fight for India but it might support India realising that Pakistan - which supports terrorism - can eventually be a threat to the US," said Professor of International Politics at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, Amitabh Mattoo.
Sources say Islamabad has taken no meaningful action against anti-India terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Toiba. The group's links with the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban have strengthened and its links with the ISI are intact.
Pakistan would love to see a resumption of the composite dialogue with India and so would America, but India is making it clear that there will be no talking till Pakistan walks its talk on terror.
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