New Delhi: India on Monday said dialogue with Pakistan will be resumed after Islamabad assures it that a Mumbai-like terrorist attack won’t originate from its territory again.
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had given a clear "very clear and consistent" message to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari during their meeting in Russia.
"The message is take necessary steps in your own country to bring to book those who perpetrated these horrors on our soil and then give us enough assurance for your own conduct that we will not have to fear this again,” said Tharoor.
"But given that what happened in November (2008), came from Pakistan, the first steps have to come also from Pakistan--and then we will certainly have a good basis for reviving talks," he said.
India was willing to engage but it expects "certain very positive" actions from the other side that its territory will not be "willfully used to do us harm".
"We have never been opposed to talking to our neighbours. On the contrary, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been a fervent advocate of good relations with Pakistan," Tharoor said.
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