Thursday, December 18, 2008

Indian PM wants normalized relations with Pakistan

KHUNDRU, India – India's prime minister says he wants "normalized" relations with Pakistan amid rising tensions between the South Asian rivals over the Mumbai attacks.

Talking at an election rally in Indian Kashmir on Sunday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh India says he hopes relations between the neighbors can be "normalized," but that this "cannot happen as long as our neighboring country allows its soil to be used against us."

Singh traveled to Kashmir after a breakfast meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in New Delhi. The two leaders discussed the recent attacks on Mumbai, which have been blamed on a Pakistani-based Kashmiri militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba. - AP

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