Click to play videoNew Delhi: After six months of cold war and Manmohan Singh saying no talks with Pakistan, on Tuesday the Prime Minister said he is willing to meet Pakistan half way if Islamabad cracks down on terror.
“If the leaders of Pakistan have the courage, the determination and statesmanship to take this route to peace, I wish to assure them that we will meet them more than half way," the Prime Minister said in the Lok Sabha.
This statement in Parliament hinted that India is willing to bend just a bit to restart the composite dialogue after the Mumbai terror attacks.
And the talks may start this month itself when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh travels to Russia to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit on June 15.
Both India and Pakistan are observers at the conference. The sources say a meeting between the Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari is a real possibility.
Relations between India and Pakistan have been marked by more than a decade of on-again off-again talks, with terror attacks on India the biggest thorn.
The last round of talks in 2008 was followed by the Kabul embassy bombing and the Mumbai attacks.
Even so, unlike the past, the UPA didn’t cut diplomatic ties with Pakistan, and didn’t downgrade their missions in Delhi and Islamabad.
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