Indian PM Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari held talks on the sidelines of a summit in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

Reuters news agency reported that the two men shook hands.

More than 170 people died in the Mumbai attacks. Relations between the two countries nosedived after Delhi said the gunmen were from Pakistan.

Pakistan denied any responsibility in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, but later admitted they had been partly planned from its soil.

The sole surviving suspected gunman is Pakistani and is currently on trial in Mumbai.