Willing to Talk On Meaningful Ideas- PM from Kashmir
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Extending a hand of friendship towards Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the neighbour to carry it “forward” and show “sincerity and good faith”. As I have said many times before, we will not be found wanting in our response,” Manmohan Singh said while addressing the public at Anantnag where he, Sonia Gandhi and other VVIPs flagged off the new train service that connects South Kashmir to North. He stressed that such a step is vital to the interests of both the people of India and Pakistan.
PM was however, firm in his stand of disagreement over Pakistan’s careless curbing of terrorism directed at India. “For a productive dialogue it is essential that terrorism must be brought under control,” he said in Urdu.
The PM believes that a majority of Pakistani actually want good co-relations and support from their Indian counter-parts and a lasting peace, something which the PM stressed, is reflected by Indians as well.
Several critical issues including development of J&K, curbing of terrorist and violent acts and an appeal to the younger generation to rebuild a shattered heaven, Manmohan Singh said, “Manmohan Singh said: “We had the most fruitful and productive discussions ever with the government of Pakistan during the period 2004-07 when militancy and violence began to decline. Intensive discussions were held on all issues including on a permanent resolution of the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. ”
The PM further blamed the terrorists to have “misused the name of a peaceful and benevolent religion.” All the progress, he added, that India has achieved “has been repeatedly thwarted by acts of terrorism. The terrorists want permanent enmity to prevail between the two countries”
He also urged the government of Pakistan to “bring” the terror groups “to book, to destroy their camps and to eliminate their infrastructure. The perpetrators of the acts of terror must pay the heaviest penalty for their barbaric crimes against humanity.”
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