The dangers of terrorism emanating from Pakistan took centre-stage once again on Saturday as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cautioned that “another instance of attack” by Pakistani terrorists would give India-Pakistan relations a “setback”, although it was evident that progress in economic and trade relations was an attainable objective.

There are “forces at work that want to destabilise our country”, and the Opposition is “getting prematurely restless”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday while speaking to the media.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appeared unfazed by the swirling controversy over certain aspects of the 2G spectrum case in the course of which the principal Opposition party, the BJP, has targeted Union home minister P. Chidambaram, and even hinted at the Prime Minister’s personal culpability in the 2G case.

In the context of the whipping up of a controversy implicating Union home minister P. Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum affair, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed full confidence in the minister.