New Delhi: Underlining that India has vital interest in trying to make peace with Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday promised to meet its leadership "more than half-way" if it takes "strong and effective" steps to prevent terrorism directed against this country.
Replying to the debate on Motion of Thanks to the President's Address in the Lok Sabha, he hoped the Pakistani leadership will demonstrate "courage, determination and statesmanship" to act against terror and "create an atmosphere" for improvement of ties.
"It is in our vital interest to try again to make peace with Pakistan but it takes two hands to clap," he said.
"We expect the government of Pakistan to take strong, effective and sustained action to prevent terrorism directed against India and use every means at its service to bring to justice the perpetrators of terror attacks, including the Mumbai attacks," the Prime Minister said.
He said such actions will be welcomed by people of both the countries.
"If the leadership of Pakistan has courage, determination and statesmanship to act against terror, I assure them we will meet them more than the half-way," Singh said.
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