First signs of thaw in India-Pakistan 26/11 freezeis

Six months after the Mumbai terror attacks put the peace process between India and Pakistan on “pause”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday directed their Foreign Secretaries to meet before the NAM summit in Egypt, where the two leaders are likely to meet again.

The summit of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries will take place mid-July in Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt, and indications are the FS-level meeting is likely to be held in the last week of June or early July.

Manmohan Singh on Tuesday told President Zardari to take action to stop terrorism against India emanating from his country’s soil. Setting the tone for the meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, Singh, shaking hands with Zardari, bluntly told him in front of television cameras that “my mandate is to tell you that Pakistan territory should not be used for terrorism against India.”

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Kasab mother coming: Pranab

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to day said that the mother of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the gunman captured during the 26/11 terror attacks, would be coming to Mumbai to meet her son during the trial, scheduled to begin tomorrow in a special court inside the Arthur Road Jail.

Campaigning in home constituency Jangipur in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, Mukherjee, responding to questions from reporters that Pakistan had raised the issue of two identical DNA sets in documents submitted by India and wanted more evidence, said: “I just now had a discussion with our Foreign Secretary. If Pakistan wants more documents and proof, we are ready to provide that. But the issue should be resolved without further delay. Pakistan is delaying investigations on some pretext or the other.

It should not delay investigations on this issue and that, on this clarification and that.” “The fact of the matter is that so many people were killed in the terror attack in Mumbai.

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