India PM wants to try again for peace with Pakistan

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday he wanted to try again to make peace with Pakistan, but stressed Islamabad needed to take "strong and effective" action to end terrorism. Singh said if the Pakistani leadership shows "courage, determination and statesmanship to take the high road to peace, India will meet it more than half the way." "I have spoken before also about my vision of a cooperative sub-continent and the vital interest people of the sub-continent have in peace. For this, we must try again to make peace with Pakistan," he said. The comments came a day after Singh had a 40-minute meeting with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari on the sidelines of a regional summit in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, their first face-to-face talks since the deadly Mumbai attacks. "It is essential that strong and effective steps are taken by Pakistan against the enemies of peace," Singh told Indian journalists accompanying him on his way back from Russia. "Pakistan should act against anti-India terror groups with (the) same determination as it was showing in dealing with Taliban," he added, describing relations with Pakistan as "under great stress."