Non aligned foreign ministers on Friday failed to agree on a draft resolution on terrorism with India rejecting host Malaysia's proposal for a separate conference on terror and a Pakistani move for a mechanism to resolve intra-Non Aligned Movement disputes.

Ahead of the two-day summit beginning on Monday, New Delhi has made it clear that unless a consensus on the draft on terrorism was evolved, there was no point in going for a NAM conference on terrorism.

In some plain speaking, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said such a conference would only bring over differences to the fore rather than evolve a consensus.

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who arrived here on Saturday evening to lead the Indian delegation at the summit, said Pakistan's involvement in aiding and abetting cross-border terrorism is likely to be taken up at the meeting.

Apart from differences on terrorism, the foreign ministers also differed on the resolution on Iraq finally accepting a diluted document that deleted a reference to "threat of use of force", an apparent allusion to Washington's moves for a strike on Iraq.

Sinha said, "At the moment, the draft is very unclear and confusing. We want a focussed and a precise statement instead of a detailed draft running into pages."

New Delhi has been opposed to any attempts to justify terrorism in the name of addressing the root cause of the problem or to refer to extremists as 'freedom fighters'.

He said India was always opposed to the idea that NAM gets involved in resolving conflicts among member states.

"If  NAM were to involve itself in conflict resolution among member states, it will do only this and nothing else," Sinha said, adding this view was also shared by some other countries.

Following the differences, the draft will go back to top officials for further discussions, before it is vetted by the ministers ahead of the summit for adoption.

At the ministerial meeting, expectedly Pakistan raked up the Kashmir issue proposing a conflict-resolving mechanism within NAM.

Dropping a demand by key Arab states to categorically reject U.S-led unilateral action on Iraq, the ministers agreed on a diluted resolution.

The 116-member grouping was asked by India to put pressure on Washington to accept the UN route for a peaceful solution to the escalating crisis.

Vajpayee said, "War should be avoided and a solution to the Iraq crisis found through the UN Security Council." He also asked NAM to put pressure on the US to accept a UN mandate in addressing the Iraqi imbroglio.