An early visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Pakistan is ruled out as it can happen onlywhen there is "specific delivery" from Islamabad on issuesconcerning India, highly-placed sources in government saidtoday.
Pakistan needs to deliver on a "wish list" that India hasgiven during the visit of the then Home Minister P Chidambaramto that country in 2010, the sources said.
They said Pakistan was very keen on such a visit by Singhbut it cannot happen on a unilateral basis.
"Pakistan knows what we want. Home Minister Chidambaramwhen he went there gave a wish list. Our present understandingand assessment is we have not reached a level that there hasbeen adequate delivery and we can go on.
"We sincerely hope that there will be a specificdelivery. We hope that it will happen in the future and thenwe can think of it (visit by the PM)," the sources said.
They said India does not consider the hanging of AjmalKasab, the lone surviving gunman in the 26/11 attack, as aclosure to the terror attack.
India is keen that the perpetrators of the 26/11 attackon trial in Pakistan are brought to justice. "We owe it ourpeople who have suffered that this is done," they said.
The sources said that a visit by Prime Minister is not amatter of sheer courtesy and cannot be done in haste. Forrelations to become normal, there are some steps needed to betaken on both sides and it was important that Pakistan shouldtake the steps.
The sources said that India has taken note of media reports about statements by prosecution witnesses in the 26/11trial in Pakistan.
But this still require official confirmation and onecannot jump to conclusions about the progress of the trial orPakistan's keenness to bring to justice the perpetrators.
On Afghanistan, the sources said India was keen on deeperengagement in military, security and technical cooperation butthere was no clarity because the road map of US andAfghanistan was still not clear.
India will watch and then increase its engagement there,they said.
New Delhi does not also believe in good or bad Talibanand sees Taliban as a domestic issue. It also acknowledgesKabul's keenness to engage with them because Talibans are alsotheir citizens.
India, the sources said, was also hopeful of the newChinese leadership adopting a positive approach towards NewDelhi. It does not believe that change of leadership in Chinawould result in change of policy though there may be somefine-tuning.
Prime Minister Singh's meeting with his Chinesecounterpart Wen Jiabao in Cambodia earlier this week was seenas a good sign of things to come, the sources said, addingthat the indication was that the PM was told that everyone inChina wants to take the relationship forward.
On Palestine, the sources said that while India doescondemn the "disproportionate use of force" it cannot gobeyond a certain point in criticising the actions of Israelbecause as non-permanent member of the UNSC it cannot be seento be taking sides.
Also while India's commitment to an independent state ofPalestine was not in doubt, the scene has changed now withPalestine also engaging with others in the region which wasnot the case some years ago. It has to be kept in mind thatIndia also has diplomatic relations with Israel.