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Terror modules will be busted, says Manmohan

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Terrorist acts instigated from across the border

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SHOWING CONCERN: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets a victim of Tuesday's serial bomb blasts at the Lokmanya Tilak Hospital in Mumbai on Friday.

MUMBAI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Friday that the Government would spare no effort in cracking down on the terror modules in the country.

Talking to reporters at the domestic airport before departing for New Delhi, he said he had also explained to Pakistan at the highest level that it would be difficult for the peace or any other process to progress if acts of terrorism continued.

Dr. Singh said the Government had credible information that terror modules existed here and in other parts of the country and they were instigated, inspired and supported by elements across the border without which they could not act with such devastating effect.

"We will leave no stone unturned — I reiterate — no stone unturned, in ensuring that terrorist elements in India are neutralised and smashed with sustained action by the Central and State Governments and the cooperation of the civil society."

Earlier, he visited city hospitals to comfort victims of Tuesday's serial train blasts. Accompanied by National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, the Prime Minister also discussed the situation with Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Deputy Chief Minister R.R. Patil and senior police and State Government officials.

Replying to a question on whether India would try to get Pakistan declared a `terrorist state,' he said India will use all possible opportunities in the world fora to tell the international community that the nation had been at the receiving end of terrorism for the past 16 years.

"They clearly want to destroy our growing economic strength and destroy our unity and to provoke communal incidents," he said and underscored, "our strength lies in our unity." He, however, acknowledged that there was a need to improve ground level intelligence.

Talks on: Saran

Amit Baruah reports from New Delhi:

No decision has been taken to postpone Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told this correspondent on Friday evening.

The talks between Mr. Saran and his Pakistani counterpart, Riaz Muhammad Khan, had been scheduled for July 21.

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