Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet his Pakistan counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday during which he is expected to convey New Delhi's unhappiness over the lack of "credible" action by Islamabad to punish perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and end cross-border terrorism.
It has been agreed through diplomatic channels that the two leaders will meet at the meeting venue Thimpu, the capital of Bhutan, on the sidelines of the 16th SAARC Summit, a spokesperson of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said ending days of speculation on the subject.
Though the two had two brief meetings earlier this month in Washington when they were there to attend the Nuclear Security Summit, this will be their first bilateral engagement since they met at the Egyptian town of Sharm-el-Sheikh in July last year for substantive discussions.
India has put the composite dialogue process on hold since the Mumbai attacks, and refuses to resume it till Pakistan punishes all those behind the gruesome carnage, which left over 186 persons killed.
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