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The comments came two days after New Delhi said it was disappointed by the
decision of a Pakistani court to free the head of Jamaatud Dawa which New Delhi
says was linked to last year's Mumbai attacks.
President Pratibha Patil, outlining the foreign policy of India's newly elected
government, said the country was ready to mend fences with Pakistan.
‘My government will seek to reshape our relationship with Pakistan depending on
the sincerity of Pakistan's actions to confront groups who launch terrorist
attacks against India from its territory,’ she told parliament.
India says the 10 gunmen who reached India's shore by sea and laid a 60-hour
siege of Mumbai last November were Pakistan nationals who had been aided by
their country's ‘official agencies’.
After the attacks in India's financial capital, which left 166 people dead, New
Delhi put on hold a slow-moving peace process launched with Pakistan in 2004.
In her address, Patil also said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress Party
administration will try to sort out differences with India's other neighbours
such as China, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
‘The government will sincerely work with our neighbours to ensure that
outstanding issues are addressed and the full potential of our region is
realised,’ the president said.
‘The government will continue to pursue India's enlightened interest,
maintaining the strategic autonomy and independent decision-making that has been
its hallmark,’ she said. |
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