New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said there are no differences in perception between the Congress party and the government on the Indo-Pak joint statement issued after he met Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Sharm-Al-Sheikh in Egypt earlier in July.
The Prime Minister, who will address Parliament on July 29, also called the Balochistan controversy a media creation and said the government was confident. He said the government would have all the relevant answers.
The Prime Minister was speaking on the sidelines of a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan to honour Bill Gates with Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace.
Meanwhile, the top leadership of the Congress is now all set to counter the Opposition onslaught against the Prime Minister's diplomatic initiative on Pakistan. It has decided to fully back the prime minister on the Egypt statement.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is now expected to endorse the government stand at next week's Parliamentary party meet.
In a late night meeting that lasted more than two hours, the controversial statement was discussed threadbare by the top leaders of the Congress. Although there was no official word on what happened at the meeting.
NDTV has learnt that the Congress top leaders have thrashed out a strategy to retrieve lost political ground. Sources say the PM will assure Parliament next week that there is NO question of the government going soft on terror.