Singh pressures Pakistan on terrorism

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The international community should put pressure on the Pakistani government to do more to control regional terrorism, the Indian prime minister said.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in Washington this week to attend a series of high-profile visits, including a formal state dinner with U.S. President Barack Obama.

Singh at a presentation at the Council on Foreign Relations called on the Pakistani government to bring the perpetrators of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai to justice.

Militants with the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Toiba stormed several targets in Mumbai, killing more than 150 in a daring raid.

Pakistan "should be pressurized by the world community to do much more to bring to book all those people who are responsible for this horrible crime," he told the Washington audience.

Pakistan and India have an acrimonious relationship, strained further by the nuclear weapons in their respective arsenals.

India is on high alert ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Mumbai attacks. Singh earlier this year warned that militant activity along the Pakistani border suggested the threat level was high.

Islamabad, for its part, has suggested India played a role in the outbreak of militant violence along the volatile border region with Afghanistan.

India, meanwhile, launched a medium-range missile in an overnight test, though the missile failed to engage its target.