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Manmohan Singh has little to offer: Pakistan Daily

Islamabad: India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has very little to promise to Pakistan ahead of India’s general elections, a Pakistani daily said on Sunday.
The comment was made by the Dawn in an editorial titled “A long way to go”, regarding a scheduled meeting between Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Manmohan Singh in New York later this month.

The daily said optimism could be ruled out as the 2008 serial terror attack in Mumbai “continues to haunt the two sides”. The recent killings along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir also halted “whatever little bit of movement there was on the peace front” between the two countries, it said.

The daily, however, said previous such meetings “produced nothing”.”Former (Pakistani) Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Manmohan Singh met half a dozen times on the sidelines of this or that meeting – Thimphu, Mohali, Addu, Seoul, Sharm al-Sheikh and Tehran – but the outcome in each case was little to write home about,” the Dawn said.

As India goes to the polls next year, and “until the new government is in the saddle” in New Delhi, the Indian External Affairs Ministry will “handle the bilateral relationship gingerly” and the peace process will be on hold, the daily said.

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