Lashkar-e-Taiba has issued a fresh threat to unleash a spate of suicide attacks in India and targets include Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee among others, reports Pakistani media.

Noted Pakistani weekly The Friday Times quoted LeT chief Hafeez Saeed's taped speech, played at a mosque in Rawalpindi, as saying "listen o (Atal Bihari) Vajpayee, we are about to unleash a spate of suicide attacks. I have ordered my warriors to undertake this duty."

Lashkar also threatened Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani saying that his days were numbered, the weekly reported.

In yet another sign of continued failure of Pakistan

President Pervez Musharraf to rein in the terrorists, Saeed said in his speech "Listen o Musharraf! we shall not submit to you or your government We will not allow you to besmirch the jihad..."

The speech, which was in clear violation of law, did not spare the US ambassador to Pakistan Nancy Powell and said, "We cannot tolerate unholy presence of Nancy Powell...Pakistan should cleanse itself from her unholy existence."

Meanwhile, a former army general, Lt Gen Nishat Ahmed warned that chances of war with India were ripe because Islamabad was not keeping its word.

"Cross-border infiltration is on. The government may not be supporting it but it is certainly looking the other way."