New Delhi:
The Indian Foreign Ministry has called its High Commissioner to Australia, Sujata Singh, to New Delhi for consultations about the attacks against Indians in Australia.
Sources say the Indian High Commissioner is expected in Delhi from the 10th to the 16th of February. Singh is expected to brief the government on what the Australian government is doing to protect Indians.
Last month, India's Foreign Minister met his Australian counterpart, Stephen Smith, in London. Smith assured Krishna that his government was taking the repeated attacks against Indians seriously. Among the safety measures that Smith promised: more policemen to patrol areas where Indian students live, especially in Melbourne.
(Read: Australia concerned over relations with India)Smith also announced that a committee has been set up to look into the attacks against Indians. He gave Krishna a dossier on the Australian investigations so far into these attacks. Speaking to NDTV, Krishna said that "the dossier is silent on whether all attacks were racially motivated. Smith had no answer when I asked why Indians only were being attacked."
(Watch: Krishna: Why are only Indians attacked?)