INDO-PAK Krishna to meet Qureshi; to talk tough on Mumbai terror attack

New York, Sep 27 (PTI) India will step up pressure on
Islamabad to speed up the probe into the 26/11 terror attacks
and bring the perpetrators of the carnage, including
Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed, to justice when
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna meets with his Pakistani
counterpart here on Sunday.

Ahead of the meeting, he said the Mumbai attacks would
be the "focal point" of his talks with Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

"There cannot be any justification whatsoever for such
mindless (26/11) terrorist acts. It is our collective
responsibility and duty to work together to ensure that
terrorists, organisers, perpetrators and supporters of such
crimes are brought to justice," Krishna said.

Earlier, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her
Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir held talks here on
Saturday evening on the margins of the annual UN General
Assembly session, the first high-level contact between the two
sides since the Prime Ministers of the two countries met at
the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh in July.

On the same day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in a
tough message, made it clear to Pakistan that it must stop
state-sponsored terrorism to normalise ties with India.

"India's message is that India seeks to normalise its
relations with Pakistan. But the only obstacle is that
Pakistan should give up its old attitude regarding the use of
terror as an instrument of state policy," he said in
Pittsburg, while winding up his trip there for the G-20
summit. (More) PTI