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NEW DELHI : India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said he wanted peace with arch-rival Pakistan and said he would meet Islamabad "more than halfway" if it cracked down on Islamic militants.
The apparent effort to reach out to Pakistan comes after months of tensions following last year's Mumbai attacks, in which 166 people were killed by Pakistani gunmen.
"It is in our vital interest to make peace with Pakistan but it takes two hands to clap," Singh told lawmakers in parliament.
"If the leadership of Pakistan has courage, determination and statesmanship to act against terror, I assure them we will meet them more than halfway.
"We expect the government of Pakistan to take strong, effective and sustained action to prevent terrorism directed against India and use every means ... to bring to justice the perpetrators of terror attacks, including the Mumbai attacks," he said.
A peace process between the two nuclear-armed neighbours was put on hold following the November 2008 attacks on India's financial and entertainment capital.
- AFP/vm
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