Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said he has accepted his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani's invitation to visit Pakistan, but stressed that he will go when the two countries can do something ‘solid’ together.
"Prime Minister Gilani has invited me to visit Pakistan every time I have met him. The right moment for my going to Pakistan would be when if we could do something solid together," Manmohan Singh told reporters mid-air while returning from the Maldives after attending the SAARC summit.
"I would be happy to visit Pakistan but I haven't made up my mind yet," he said.
The Prime Minister when asked about the Rahul Gandhi assuming the post of Congress working president said that he would ‘welcome’ him with open hands.
"It is a party matter. I cannot talk about the party. If Rahul Gandhi assumes any responsibility, I will welcome it," Singh said when asked whether Gandhi was going to assume the post of working president of Congress about which there has been lot of speculation.
He also said that he had requested Rahul Gandhi on a number of occasions to join the Cabinet but he had not accepted it.