Vajpayee urges Indo-US concert against terror.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. - Pakistan is doomed to fail in its attempt to use terror to split India, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee told a joint sitting of the US Congress this morning.

Without naming Pakistan, the Prime Minister said: "There are forces outside our country that believe that they can use terror to unravel the territorial integrity of India. They wish to show that a multi-religious society cannot exist. They pursue a task in which they are doomed to fail."

No region is a greater source of terrorism than India's neighbourhood, he said, and repeated the point he made in New York last week: "Indeed, in our neighbourhood - in this 21st century - religious war has not just been fashioned into, it has been proclaimed to be, an instrument of state …