Describing Pakistan as a responsible and peaceful nuclear state, he said the country wanted good relations with its neighbours. "We don't want any parallel government in the country and don't want the writ of the government be challenged," he said at the campus of the National University of Science and Technology in Islamabad [Images], without elaborating who he was referring to.

Gilani's comments follow reports that Pakistan is diverting troops from its restive northwest region bordering Afghanistan, where they are engaged in fighting Al-Qaeda [Images] and Taliban [Images] militants, for possible redeployment on the Indian border.