NEW DELHI, Sept 14: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, due to meet President Gen Pervez Musharraf for their first talks this month, was handed unusual support on Tuesday by rightwing Hindu Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) for recent talks with Islamabad.

The RSS mouthpiece, The Organiser, rarely at peace with Pakistan, said Dr Singh's United Progressive Alliance government had successfully sealed the dialogue process with last week's foreign ministers' talks in New Delhi.

Claiming credit for the Hindutva establishment for kickstarting the current thaw, The Organiser said Indian Foreign Minister Kunwar Natwar Singh was able to "pin" his guest, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, to the promise of Jan 6, 2004 extracted from Pakistan by former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to stop cross border infiltration.