By NNN-PTI,
Trieste, Italy : Taking a tough line, India on Friday conveyed to Pakistan that bilateral ties cannot improve unless Islamabad shows tangible progress in bringing those behind Mumbai terror attacks to justice.
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna met his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the sidelines of the G-8 Foreign ministers meeting and made it clear that relations cannot progress till Pakistan takes verifiable action against masterminds of Mumbai terror attacks, sources said.
The two leaders reviewed the current status of Indo-Pak relations, after which Krishna told reporters that Indo-Pak relations have remained under “considerable stress” due to terrorism emanating from that country.
“These (relations) have remained under considerable stress and the primary cause of this is the terrorist attacks on India, by elements based in Pakistan,” the External Affairs Minister said.