"Pakistan's claims of India helping the Taliban are baseless," Defence Minister A K Antony said on Tuesday, refuting Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik's allegations.

Malik had on Monday claimed that India was causing unrest within Pakistan by  funding Taliban fighters based along the border with Afghanistan.

Malik said he's "convinced" that India is among "certain hostile agencies" backing the Taliban to destabilise Pakistan. "I have no doubt about it," he said.

Reacting to this, Minister for External Affairs SM Krishna had said on Monday that "We want Talibanism and the Taliban to be totally eliminated,"

The Pakistani government is currently in the middle of a huge operation to bomb Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan. The country has seen a series of terror attacks by the Taliban in the last few weeks - most of them directed against police and army centres.

More than a hundred people have died in the attacks, which have covered Lahore, Peshawar, Rawalpindi and Kohat.