In a message clearly directed at Pakistan. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama have "underscored the absolute imperative to bring to justice" the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attack on the eve of the terror assault's first anniversary.

"On the eve of its first anniversary, President Obama reiterated the United States's condemnation of the terrorist attack in Mumbai in November 2008," said a Joint Statement issued Tuesday after their meeting in the Oval office during the Prime Minsiter's State visit, the first of the Obama presidency.