Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that Pakistan and the Kashmiri separatists should respond to the appeal for dialogue in the spirit in which it has been made. Addressing a news conference in Srinagar on Oct.29 at the end of his two-day visit to the state, he reaffirmed his offer of talks made a day earlier to both the separatists and Pakistan without preconditions. At the same time, he warned Pakistan that talks would make little headway if there was no “effective control” over terror g ...
