My job is done if India-Pakistan ties normalise-PM

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would consider his job "well done" if ties with Pakistan return to normal before he leaves office, local media quoted him as saying on Sunday, weeks after Singh's diplomatic push at the cricket World Cup.

"Well, if I can succeed in normalising relations between India and Pakistan as they should prevail between two normal states, I will consider my job well done," Singh told reporters on board his plane returning from a visit to Kazakhstan, according to the Press Trust of India.

Singh had invited his Pakistani Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, to watch their two teams square off in the semi final of the cricket World Cup at the end of March.