Pakistan's promises to be gauged by action: Indian PM

NEW DELHI—Pakistan has to prove it is sincere about working with India to counter terrorism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said after police accused Islamabad of plotting blasts that killed 186 people in Mumbai.
"Pakistan will have to walk the talk," to back up its promise to cooperate on terrorism, Singh told reporters on Tuesday night.
"Whatever has been discovered (by Mumbai police), we shall share that information with Pakistan and test them on how sincere they are in carrying forward the commitment I and President Musharraf have underlined," Singh said in his plane home from South Africa.
The police chief of India's commercial capital Mumbai on Saturday publicly accused Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), of orchestrating the July attacks on commuter trains that also left 800 wounded.
India called off peace talks with Pakistan in the aftermath of the attacks but agreed to continue the dialogue after a meeting between Singh and Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf in Havana on September 16.
Singh and Musharraf decided to "put in place an India-Pakistan anti-terrorism institutional mechanism to identify and implement counter-terrorism initiatives and investigations."
Pakistan has pledged to take action if India produces evidence to show that its spy agency was involved in the Mumbai train bombings, but has denied any role in the attacks.
When asked how the proposed counter-terrorism mechanism would work with Pakistan, Singh said: "We have set up this mechanism. How else can we ask for information except through a mechanism like this?"
"The mechanism is yet to take off, we have to test it and we will test it," Singh vowed after right-wing Hindu opposition voices branded the agreement a "betrayal".--Agencies—Agencies