New Delhi, July 12: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves on Monday for a visit to France and Egypt, during which he will meet his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani with the hope of getting a categoric commitment that Mumbai attackers would be punished and cross-border terror stopped.
Ahead of his meeting with Gilani in Sharm-el Sheikh in Egypt on the margins of NAM Summit, Singh made it clear that New Delhi would "do all that is necessary" to resolve all outstanding issues if Pakistan takes "credible action" to deal with terrorist elements targeting India.
Noting that he was looking forward to his meeting with Gilani, Singh said he was hoping that the Pakistani leader would give a "renewed reaffirmation" to bring the perpetrators of 26/11 attacks to justice and that they would not allow Pakistani soil to be used for terror acts directed against India.
The meeting will take place after Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir discuss what Islamabad has done to bring to book perpetrators of November 26 attacks and dismantle terror infrastructure.
Singh and Gilani will take stock of the situation on the basis of deliberations between Menon and Bashir.
The Singh-Gilani meeting, expected on July 16, will take place two months after the Indian leader met President Asif Ali Zardari in Yekaterinburg in Russia. During that meeting, Singh had bluntly told Zardari in media glare that Pakistan must end terror directed against India.
Bureau Report
