Indian PM welcomes Pakistan steps, seeks more

US: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday he welcomed Pakistani steps to rein in extremists after a court charged seven suspects over the Mumbai attacks, but called for more action.

"It is the obligation of the Pakistan government to do everything in their power to bring these perpetrators" to justice, Singh told reporters on a visit to Washington. Singh said he was not briefed on the Pakistani anti-terror court's charges over India's worst militant attacks but added: "I welcome every step that leads in that direction" of reining in extremists.

However, he said "it is our strong feeling that the government of Pakistan could do more to bring to book people who are still roaming around in the country freely and to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism and I can only hope that there will be progress in that area."

A court in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, earlier indicted seven men in connection with the attacks a year ago in Mumbai that left 166 people dead and rose new tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals. Washington, Thursday, AFP