By IRNA,
New Delhi : No bilateral meeting fixed between India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart, Yusuf Raza Gilani during SAARC Summit taking place in Thimpu, capital of Bhutan from 28-29 April, marking 25 years of the establishment of SAARC.
Talking to reporters in New Delhi on Singh’s visit to Bhutan for the SAARC summit, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said that no bilateral meeting has been fixed so far between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart.
However, she added that dialogue was the way forward in ties between the two countries.
Singh will be having separate meetings with leaders from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan besides Afghanistan, she said.
Maintaining that the situation was not ripe for resumption of the composite dialogue, Rao said India wants action against the perpetrators and dismantling of terror infrastructure in Pakistan.
She said the levels of infiltration still are cause of concern in the last few months and terror infrastructure and activities of terror groups from territories controlled by Pakistan is a matter of serious concern.
Rao also said the Pakistan has not got back to India on the dossiers handed over to them at the Foreign Secretary-level talks in New Delhi in February containing information against terrorists and terror groups involved in anti-India activities including mastermind of Mumbai attack and Jamaat-ud-dawa chief Hafiz Saeed.
It is to be noted that prior to Mumbai attacks on 26 November 2008, the composite dialogue which was launched in 2004 had made considerable progress during the four rounds.