Islamabad: Yousaf Raza Gilani Pakistani Prime Minister said on Friday the condition was “fragile” on the border with India, and regretted the deferral of peace meeting following the militant attacks in Mumbai in November.

Gilani’s comments came a day later than the Government confirmed that the single surviving gunman from the attack that killed 179 people in India’s monetary capital was a Pakistani.

The Prime Minister sacked his national defense consultant on Thursday for disclosing this before consulting him.

“The situation on our eastern border has once again become very fragile,” Gilani told a discussion group in Islamabad.

While tensions have run high among the nuclear-armed neighbors, there has been no symbol of a troop build-up by any side, and analysts say probability of India resorting to military act have receded.

Pakistani officials have warned that if there was any threat of a argument with India it would switch military from the western border with Afghanistan, where they are fighting pro-Taliban and al Qaeda militants.

Any such act would weaken inward US president Barack Obama’s preparation to nearly double the number of US troops in Afghanistan as part of a rush plan to suppress the Taliban mutiny.

Dell Dailey, the State Department’s counter terrorism coordinator, told reporters in Washington on Tuesday that the United States had not seen any stir of Pakistanis forces from western border regions to the east “in any degree that’s measurable”.

He said Pakistan stimulated troops to the eastern border in 2002, when it went to the point of a fourth battle with India.

“We do not want that to happen again and we’ll do as much as we can to prevent it,” Dailey said.