Pakistan told to show 'visible results' on Mumbai probe

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday called on Pakistan to show "visible results" in its probe into the November 26 Mumbai attacks to enable the resumption of a sub-continental composite dialogue process, even as he said India and Pakistan would have to jointly face the scourge of terrorism.

"Pakistan should show visible results on the 26/11 probe," Singh told reporters on the sidelines of a civil investiture ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

"It has to prove that the government is doing all that is possible [to bring the perpetrators to book]," he said.

"It is the least they should do to convince us of their sincerity," he added.

He was responding to a suggestion made by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari that the two countries resume the composite dialogue process that was frozen in the wake of the Mumbai attacks that India has blamed on elements operating from across the border with Pakistan.

Expressing his sympathies to Pakistan over Monday's terror attack on a police academy near Lahore, Singh said both countries should jointly take on terrorists.

"I have always said that India and Pakistan have to face jointly the scourge of terrorism," he said. "I sincerely wish the [Pakistani] government will have the courage to take up the challenge."

"Our sympathies are with the government and people of Pakistan," he said, in his first remarks after a terror attack on a police training school near Lahore left 18 people dead.

Singh said he looked forward to meeting US President Barrack Obama on the sidelines of the G20 summit in London on Thursday.

"We will be talking about bilateral and global issues, climate change and terrorism," he said.