Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. PHOTO: AFP
According to a Times of India report, Singh said that there cannot be a normalisation of relations between the two countries “unless and until the terror machine which is still active in Pakistan is brought under control.”
The Indian prime minister was addressing the upper house of the parliament.
Singh told the lawmakers that India has made sincere efforts to normalise its relations with Pakistan.
"People to people contacts have gone up, trade relations have shown improvement," he reported.
The statements come a day before Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s planned personal visit to India.
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@Faisal: Wrong on facts RAW has a budget of $2.2 Billion, as for ISI I will go with your figures !! But that is not the main difference between the two. The major differences are that while RAW plays by rule of law, ISI is freelance !!, While RAW is china specific, ISI is Afghanistan/India specific!!, While RAW is an Indian agency, Pakistan is an ISI agency !! Yes, Pakistan is an ISI agency !!!!
I don't get this. If India goes after terrorists in Pakistan, it's bad. If India encourages terrorists in Pakistan, that's bad too. If India engages Pakistan and gives proof of terrorist activities in Pakistan, that's bad again. If India remains aloof, that's a problem too. Of course the Indian PM is confused. In any case, he spends all his time on the Indian economy and is no expert on which outfit is blowing up Pakistanis and which gets blown up by India. He should not have spoken. Events in Pakistan speak for themselves.
@ Ponga Pundit If you reply to a post by name, you should have the decency to deal with the points raised therein and not just go off at a tangent.
Indira Gandhi's chant of 'avenging 1000 years of Muslim domination' and India's physical intervention in our former Eastern wing are not brainwashing by the army, but ugly facts, which clearly indicate intentions of Indian leaders.
Karachi
@S.R.H. Hashmi: Your comment is a classic example of systematic brainwashing of Pakistani society by it's army. It is just hilarious, frustrating and pitiful to see you guys building up such stupid notion about Indians. For every single misadventures from founder of Pakistan and by all rulers hence till date you keep on seeing imagined nefarious hands of foreign government and especially Indians. You should not worry about Indians playing in hands of Americans, Pakistan has been and til date playing in hands of British colonials who successfully sowed seeds of Hindu-Muslim enmity in sub continent. and your leaders willfully jumped into making an "Islamic republic" instead of remaining in secular (not hindu) republic of India. What is happening in Pakistan is simply unraveling of all the past mistakes of it's leaders and it's gross misadventure in harboring and nurturing violent terrorists as strategic assets. It's simply pitiful to see Pakistanis continue imagining Indian hands for all their self inflicted wounds
This was harsh treatment of Bengalese by the then West Pakistan officials which paved the way for the creation of Bangladesh, but it was Indian intervention which speeded up the processs, and India had no business doing. And then Indira Gandhi proudly announced that 1,000 years of Muslim domination has been avenged.
While majority of ordinary people on both sides want to live in peace and feel no animosity toward the other, the Indian government and some hardliners on both sides create problems. Having broken up Pakistan in half, India now sees a chance of dismembering the rest, by creating an independent Balochistan and a Greater Pashtonistan by merging our tribal areas with Afghanistan, and is actively working towards it, alongwith United States and its gang. The next step would be to take control of our nuclear assets.
India dreams of becoming the leader in the region, even overtaking China, and the United States wants to use India as a sacrificial goat in its ultimate war with China, like it used us against USSR, and India seems to be falling in the trap. Instead of working for peace in the region, India is collaborating with outsiders to destabilize the region, which is as unfotunate as it is stupid, because it has no chance of succeeding in its mission, and will only end up spoiling relations between the two nuclear neighbours, to the discomfort of both.
Karachi
@Queen: Madam, If you have problems in in Balochistan, it is your government's duty to solve it, If they can't do it don't blame it on India. Also please don't worry about Kashmir, It is integral part of India and no pakistanis should worry about India's internal matters. Meanwhile while we concentrate on our problems please do not back stab again.
Yes from us Pakistanis also no normal ties with India in any forms and manifestations unless India resolves Kashmir issue and the most important question rises here,id est,would you like to explain that when normal ties were between Pakistan and India in the past and are now in the present times???
@Angel of peace: @Indian Wisdom: How about Kashmir suppression and mass migration are they enjoying the Indian Hegemony"
I suppose you are talking about mass migration of Kashmiri Pandits ; refugees in their own country and forced to migrate by the extremists!!!!
It will all change after elections on both sides
what i would say is ''Pakistan don't want any kind of ties with India until it stop supporting terrorism in Pakistan''.And Pakistan please stop demanding any more ties with India.I think we are good without them.India is not that a prosperous state to get benefited from.there is way too much poverty and pathetic life standard there then we have in pakistan...
@mystreeman: "Thanks to Pakistan the cities of India are spared by Talibans..if there were no Pakistan ( no partition of India) then terror would have touched the shores of kanya kumari! "
Wrong. If there was no Pakistan, India would never have interfered in Afghanistan and creatd this jihadi mess. Any insurgency movement would have been addressed holistically in a democratic set up by a) Addressing all legitimmate grievances b) Strong police and counter insurgency action to take care of bad actors. This is what was done in Khalistan and Assam and is currently being done in Kashmir and Maoist areas.
@Mohammad Ali Siddiqui: "Again India attacked Pakistan in 1971 and broke Pakistan into two parts."
Muuahooohaaa (evil laugh) !!!
If any Indian thinks India is not meddling in Baluchistan, he is living in a fool's paradise. RAW is pakistan-specific and has a budget of 150 million US $. ISI is not India specific and has a budget of 50 million US $. Am quoting from an article of Times.
@shuaib: Suhaib, it is Indian armed force and not terrorists who are in Kashmir. If you know of any Hindu terror outfit in Kashmir please help us Indians find them and eliminate them. On the other hand the terrorists in Pakistan we are speaking of are actual terrorists, unless it is quite broadly acceptable in Pakistan that (their) army and terrorists are the same :)
Both Congress and BJP are trying hard to beat each other and win the support of common Indian people through old outdated 'Hate Pakistan" policy. Can smell the Indian elections around the corner.
Thanks to Pakistan the cities of India are spared by Talibans..if there were no Pakistan ( no partition of India) then terror would have touched the shores of kanya kumari!
Pakistan is burned to ashes, still our fellow countrymen are worried about Kashmir.
our PM should act more assertively towards pakistan. we have to strongly condemn its inaction towards the growing terrorist outfits in that country.we cannot tolerate any more. every where in the world miscreants are there.even in our india also we have. proud to be an indian. india symbolizes the coexistence of 6 religions, thousands of sects,ethinc castes and subcastes and with its spectacular diversity.
@Mohammad Ali Siddiqui: " ... Now India is bent upon breaking the remaining Pakistan. ... "
You are doing it yourself. Why blame us ?
I am Indian and I condemn his statement.
I feel sad for Pakistan. No one sympathizes with Pakistan more than Manmohan Singh. As a child of Wah, Pakistan, he is the closest person who came to being a dove along with I. K. Gujral and A. B. Vajpayee. . Manmohan Singh would have liked nothing more than a peace accord with Pakistan. For a person who generally does not speak a word to speak in such harsh tones bodes ill for Pakistan. . @Mohammad Ali Siddiqui: Please read something other than your Pakistan Studies textbook. Please also read about karma, we know very well more than anyone else that what goes around comes around. We have nothing to do with Baluchistan or Afghanistan, you created those problems! In fact, we will say that you are suffering BECAUSE of your karma!
@Indian Wisdom: How about Kashmir suppression and mass migration are they enjoying the Indian Hegemony
@Rodney: Absolutely wrong your thinking is absurd we are fighting a war for the peace of the world but in that process the world is betraying us for sacrifices.Arabs were involved in 9/11 but Iraq was Attacked first then Afghanistan and now funding terrorist into Pakistan to destabilize our beloved land.Recently it was revealed the bomb attack in Lahore Pakistan was funded and organized by American Nationals and funded by them in American city.So these American kill people under camouflage and raise hue and cry over media that their is unrest in Pakistan.Well we are peace loving people but American tax payers money is being used for terrorist activities by their mercenaries.
A mistake made once is human error, the same mistake made second time is experience, but the third time proves the idiocity. Indian congress let down muslim league and Mr Jinnah opted for separation in good faith. Indian congress agreed to let the muslim majority lands form a separate country. The Brits symbolicaly allowed the sultans and Maharajas to announce accessions. Some of them balked and Indian congress in the case of Kashmir also balked.
Indian Congress has never accepted the principle of partition! Pakistan people must learn to protect the remaining of Pakistan without the Indian congress approval. No diplomatic relations with Embassy status, instead at consulate level.
Rex Minor
Every one knows in the world that how sincere India is with Pakistan.
Immediately after the independence, India attacked Pakistan in 1948.
Then India attacked Pakistan in 1965 to break Pakistan.
Again India attacked Pakistan in 1971 and broke Pakistan into two parts. The former East Pakistan was made Bangladesh with the help of Indian Army.
Now India is bent upon breaking the remaining Pakistan.
India is providing all financial assistance and training to the terrorists in the Indian terror camps and accusing Pakistan for terrorism.
How many meetings have been held at every level between the officials of Pakistan and India, but India did not move an inch from its stance during the last 65 years.
This shows how sincere India is with Pakistan.
@Abdullah Hashmi: "Message to the respected President: We may have some terrorists outfits in our country, they are minute contrary to media projection, their ideology is not carriedm supported or propogated by any Pakistani."
Delusional much - eh?
Dr Manmohan Singh went a mile to normalise relations with Pakistan despite lot of opposition from the opposition parties and his own party members. Though his efforts yielded some positive results namely increase in trade and visa relaxation between the two countries but Pakistan did little to close terror camps or stop sending terrorists across the LoC and such violations have since increased during the past two years. The lack of response from across the border has given a severe jolt to the normalising process and the Indian PM clearly disappointed decided to call curtains until positive response is shown by Pakistan. However if not for India but for its own sake, Pakistan should wind up its terror machinery which will not only bring peace and prosperity in the country itself but in the entire region as well.
@HelloWorld: Why there are more than 600,000 troops in kashmir ? Because we need to handle the 60,000 guests (='Strategic assets') waiting to get into India with / without visas..
@shuaib: What is your army doing in Baluchistan ? social work?
@HelloWorld: kashmiris called them self either INDIA or kashmiri.
No kashmiri called him slef pakistani. N pakistan is fighting for kashmir great ;-) Dont care abt own land balochistan. Leave kashmir save baloch
@Queen: Few days back ur air army officer only said that he want normal relation with INDIA.
@Queen Tongue has ability to speak whatever one pleases and fingers can type anything that one wills. Apart from that can you actually show some evidence of Indian involvement in Baluchistan?
Please Mr Singh, what you said is not true. Go where the peppers grow!
Rex Minor
Message to the respected President: We may have some terrorists outfits in our country, they are minute contrary to media projection, their ideology is not carriedm supported or propogated by any Pakistani.
But the problem with India is that, India's terror outfits are in the government, they are political in nature and have enormous political and social influence. Their ideology is supported by a majority in the country which brings them to power.
So it is your country that needs correction before your statement.
@helloworld, "Why there are more than 600,000 troops in kashmir ?" .. we can keep as many or as little on our territory ...how does that impact you ? .. You can keep 600,000 troops in balochistan and do we have any problem ?..
What about the terror India is supporting in neighbouring countries? Why there are more than 600,000 troops in kashmir ? Pakistan is better off having no ties with India ....
What about theI ndian terror machine in occupied Kashmir which is terrorising the population there?
"India cannot have normal ties with Pakistan until it brings terrorist activities under control, said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday."
But what is wrong with this statement??? Fact is even the people of Pakistan (Shia/Sunnis/Ahmedis etc.) can not have normal ties with each other till their establishment brings terrorist activities under control........
Bringing the terror machine to halt, is in the best interest of Pakistan also and not just India, which they (establishment of Pakistan) must have learnt by now; though in hard way..........
I am a Pakistani and I agree with Manmohan Singh. Enough of govt. support to the militants in the name of strategic assets. Let everyone come out clean first.
There is nothing wrong with this statement Pakistan should not only control but completely eliminate terror machinery and idealogies working behind terrorism.Pakistan will be the bigest beneficiery if terror machinary is removed from its soil.
No normal ties with Pakistan until it controls terror: Indian PM Is that only applicable to cricketing ties !!!!
It reads better - " No ties with Pakistan until it controls terror " !
What the Indian prime minister doesn't understand is that Pakistan is holding on to the tiger's tail. If they let it go then Pakistan will be gobbled by the tiger. The tiger is the pandering of fanatics since the time of Zia Ul Haq. It (fanatics) have already started swallowing in the way of slaughtering shias in Pakistan. It is really sad.
Oh sir, please Pakistan is also not interested in normalizing ties with India. We are facing you interference in Balochistan and in KAshmir and we do not want any more depth in relations. Kindly address the issues of your country and let us address our own.