WASHINGTON — Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday that the world must press Pakistan to stop backing terrorists who target India.
Singh, speaking on the eve of an elaborate White House state visit, also urged Pakistan to bring to justice those who planned the Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead a year ago.
Singh said it was right to resist the “inordinate pressure” he faced to respond to the attack that angered India.
But Pakistan “should be pressurized by the world community to do much more to bring to book all those people who are responsible for this horrible crime,” Singh said at the Council on Foreign Relations. “The trauma of the attack continues to haunt us.”
Failure to control the terrorist groups, Singh said, will result in serious consequences for the stability of Pakistan and India. The Associated Press
