New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday blamed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for buckling down under the pressure of "unforeseen forces" on the issue of cross-border terrorism.

"The joint statement of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the issue of a combined terror mechanism has serious implications from the Indian perspective," former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha told reporters at the party headquarters here.

"Are unseen powers pushing India towards a solution of Jammu and Kashmir that it has rejected all along?" he asked.

"The Havana statement is an unprecedented capitulation of India before Pakistan on the issue of cross-border terrorism."

Sinha said the stand taken by the prime minister has "wiped out in one stroke all that had been achieved by India in its war against terror through years of hard work with the international community, and bilaterally with Pakistan".

He said the BJP would not remain a mute spectator to the "surrender of nation's interests by the UPA government".

A meeting of top leaders was held at former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's residence Monday to chalk out the party's strategy on this issue.