Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shakes hands with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 68th Session of the U.N. General Assembly, in New York on Sunday Sep 30,2013
The Prime Ministers of the two countries(India and Pakistan) have decided to task their respective Directors General of Military Operations with suggesting
"effective means to restore the ceasefire and a way forward to ensure that that remains in force and in place."
with a spate of violent incidents threatening to upend the decade-long ceasefire between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control(LOC)
In separate briefings held soon after an hour-long meeting between Manmohan Singh and Nawaz Sharif here on Sunday, India's National Security Adviser, Shivshankar Menon and Pakistani foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani said both leaders agreed that improving the situation on the LoC -- which has seen repeated violations in recent months – is a precondition for the bilateral relationship to move forward
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised the issue of terrorism and the need for Pakistan to take effective action against the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. " Nawaz Sharif said that was Pakistan's intention" and now that the Judicial Commission had returned from India after gathering evidence "there would be further progress
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised the specific issue of the Punjab provincial government in Pakistan -- that is ruled by Mr. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (N) -- providing financial support to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the successor organisation of the Lashkar-e-Taiba .But Nawaz Sharif stuck to the official Pakistani line that these funds were only being used to provide educational and welfare activities
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