Manmohan Singh told Obama in a summit held here on Friday that &quot;the expectations have to be toned down given the terror arm which is still active in our subcontinent&quot; and terrorists&#39; presence &quot;still remain focused in Pakistan&quot;. <img alt="Manmohan Singh " src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/sep/PM.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 388px;" /> Manmohan Singh. File pic Affirming their deep concern over the continuing threat posed by terrorism, a joint statement not only &quot;strongly condemned&quot; the Sep 26 attack, but also called for Pakistan to work toward bringing the perpetrators of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice. Terrorists had mounted a brazen attack on an army camp and a police station in Jammu region Sep 26. The three attackers were killed after a nine-hour long gunbattle. Ahead of a meeting on Sunday with Manmohan Singh, Nawaz Sharif said Islamabad stood ready to &quot;re-engage with India in a substantive and purposeful dialogue.&quot; &quot;I am looking forward to meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to make a new beginning,&quot; he said addressing the UN general assembly in New York. Saying that he was looking forward to meeting Manmohan Singh &quot;to make a new beginning&quot; Sharif suggested that the two countries had a &quot;solid basis to do that&quot; building on the Lahore Accord signed in 1999. Noting that the accord &quot;contained a road map for the resolution of our differences through peaceful negotiations,&quot; Sharif said he was &quot;committed to working for a peaceful and economically prosperous region.&quot;

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Expectations from a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have "to be toned down", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told US President Barack Obama following a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that left 12 people, including armymen, dead earlier in the week

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