New Delhi, July 27 - With fresh disclosure of the contents of a dossier detailing action against the Mumbai attackers given by Islamabad to New Delhi, the Congress Monday came out in strong support of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Pakistan initiative that delinks action on terror from the composite dialogue process.

'The Congress is confident that when the prime minister speaks in parliament on July 29, he will set at rest all the questions, all apprehensions and speculation relating to the Indo-Pak joint statement at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt,' AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters.

The prime minister should have the liberty to take decisions and 'move forward' on key foreign policy issues like Pakistan, added union minister Salman Khurshid while denying that there was a rift between the party and the government over the July 16 joint statement that includes for the first time a reference to Balochistan and agrees to delink the issue of terrorism from the composite dialogue process.

The remarks seemed to be an indication that the party was rallying behind Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, under attack from various quarters for his alleged 'capitulation' to Pakistan on the issue of terrorism.

'We have all the relevant answers. I have made a statement in parliament and parliament is again going to discuss the issue. I will clarify,' Manmohan Singh said Saturday when asked about the opposition's attack on the controversial joint statement.

The statement, issued after talks between Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani at Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit July 16, has been decried by some as a concession and capitulation to Pakistan on the issue of cross-border terrorism.

The prime minister also dismissed the reported difference of opinion between the government and Congress party on the issue as a 'media creation'.

Besides putting up a united front against the onslaught of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance -- which is meeting President Pratibha Patil on the issue Tuesday -- Congress leaders are also beginning to see the larger picture behind Manmohan Singh's controversial move at Sharm el-Sheikh, said a party insider.