India wants 'normal' relations
2008-12-14 16:43
Khundru, India - India's prime minister says he wants "normalised" relations with Pakistan amid rising tensions between the South Asian rivals over the Mumbai attacks.
Talking at an election rally in Kashmir on Sunday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he hoped relations between the neighbours could be "normalised", but that this "cannot happen as long as our neighbouring country allows its soil to be used against us".
Singh travelled to Kashmir after a breakfast meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in New Delhi.
The two leaders discussed the recent attacks on Mumbai, which have been blamed on a Pakistani-based Kashmiri militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba.
- AP