First handshake after Mumbai

Pakistani soil must not be used for terrorism – that’s what the India’s Prime Minster told his Pakistani counterpart on Tuesday in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

President Asif Ali Zardari reports AFP, then asked journalists to be escorted from the room so the meeting could be continued in private.

This is the first meeting between the two leaders after the Mumbai attacks that claimed 166 lives. India blames Pakistan for the attacks.

"The most sensible thing to do now would be to resume dialogue as soon as possible," Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said, according to PTI.

The leaders were attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, a regional security body where both India and Pakistan are observers.