<p>Though India is unlikely to share with Pakistan information on 2007 Samjhauta Express blast probe immediately, New Delhi on Tuesday said it was ready to go “more than halfway” in normalising its ties with Islamabad if it is “more sensitive” towards New Delhi’s core concern of terrorism.<br /><br />“If they (authorities in Islamabad) fulfil those assurances (of curbing anti-India terrorism emanating from Pakistan), we are willing to go more than half way to reach out to them,” said External Affairs Minister S M Krishna.<br /><br />Krishna’s remark came at a time when New Delhi and Islamabad are looking forward to the meeting between the Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on the sideline of a South Asian Association Regional Cooperation meet in Thimphu on February 6 and 7. Rao and Bashir are likely to prepare the ground for Krishna’s meeting with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who is expected to visit New Delhi by next March.<br /><br />“We are looking forward for Pakistan to be more sensitive towards our core concern. The core concern is terrorism and terrorism has to be tackled effectively,” Krishna said.<br /><br />His remark indicated that New Delhi, despite its fresh attempt to engage Islamabad, would continue to press the latter for effective actions to dismantle the anti-India terror infrastructure in Pakistan, as well as to expeditiously bring to justice the masterminds of the November 26, 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.<br /><br />Though New Delhi is yet to fine-tune its response to Islamabad’s attempts to take advantage of the Samjhauta Express blast case, sources said India could point out that it had been condemning terrorism in all its manifestation and it was due to sincere attempts by its agencies that the conspiracy behind the explosion had come to light and people responsible for it was being exposed.<br /><br />However, the Ministry of Home Affairs is understood to have conveyed to the Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday that the NIA was yet to complete its probe into the explosion.</p>
<p>Though India is unlikely to share with Pakistan information on 2007 Samjhauta Express blast probe immediately, New Delhi on Tuesday said it was ready to go “more than halfway” in normalising its ties with Islamabad if it is “more sensitive” towards New Delhi’s core concern of terrorism.<br /><br />“If they (authorities in Islamabad) fulfil those assurances (of curbing anti-India terrorism emanating from Pakistan), we are willing to go more than half way to reach out to them,” said External Affairs Minister S M Krishna.<br /><br />Krishna’s remark came at a time when New Delhi and Islamabad are looking forward to the meeting between the Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on the sideline of a South Asian Association Regional Cooperation meet in Thimphu on February 6 and 7. Rao and Bashir are likely to prepare the ground for Krishna’s meeting with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who is expected to visit New Delhi by next March.<br /><br />“We are looking forward for Pakistan to be more sensitive towards our core concern. The core concern is terrorism and terrorism has to be tackled effectively,” Krishna said.<br /><br />His remark indicated that New Delhi, despite its fresh attempt to engage Islamabad, would continue to press the latter for effective actions to dismantle the anti-India terror infrastructure in Pakistan, as well as to expeditiously bring to justice the masterminds of the November 26, 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.<br /><br />Though New Delhi is yet to fine-tune its response to Islamabad’s attempts to take advantage of the Samjhauta Express blast case, sources said India could point out that it had been condemning terrorism in all its manifestation and it was due to sincere attempts by its agencies that the conspiracy behind the explosion had come to light and people responsible for it was being exposed.<br /><br />However, the Ministry of Home Affairs is understood to have conveyed to the Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday that the NIA was yet to complete its probe into the explosion.</p>
