India is ready to provide full medical assistance to death row convict Sarabjit Singh, lying in coma in a Lahore hospital after a brutal assault, the government said on Monday.

Mounting pressure on the ruling dispensation at the Centre for brining Sarabjit Singh back to India, his sister Dalbir Kaur went on hunger strike at Wagah border.

India asserted that the interrogation of 26/11 key plotter Abu Jundal had "confirmed" that the terror attack was controlled from Pakistan, even as the foreign secretaries of the two countries held talks on peace and Jammu and Kashmir in a bid to keep the dialogue process on track.

The Indian envoy told the Pakistan government on Friday that the Indian Army gave a "controlled response" to "unprovoked" firing by Pakistani troops along the Jammu and Kashmir border.

India on Friday told Pakistan that it had only resorted to "controlled response" to the "unprovoked" firing by Pakistani army on Thursday along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

Tension on Friday prevailed along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir where Army was on alert after repeated ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops.

A Pakistani judicial panel is expected to make a second visit to Mumbai by mid-February after being given a green signal by India to cross-examine four officials in connection with the probe into the 26/11 attacks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday began their bilateral summit meeting with discussions expected to focus on economic ties, energy and multi-billion dollar defence deals.

The newly-built Integrated Check Post at the Wagah border on Pakistani side is fully secure and there is no threat to it, the Chief of Pakistan's border guarding force said on Sunday.

India is capable of securing its citizens, Home Secretary RK Singh said on Tuesday in response to Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik's statement that the Indian government should provide security to actor Shah Rukh Khan.