BJP walks out of Lok Sabha over India-Pakistan statement

August 18th, 2009 SHIMLA - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Tuesday said he was happy Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had realised there was terror threat emanating from Pakistan.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Lok Sabha was adjourned Tuesday following loud protests by Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs over the Pakistan Supreme Court's adjournment decision that effectively sets free Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai carnage. On Monday, Pakistan's Supreme Court indefinitely adjourned the hearing of petitions challenging the release of the Jamaat ud Dawa (JuD) chief, who India claims is the mastermind of last year's terror attack in Mumbai.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Union Government on Friday announced in Parliament that dialogue with Pakistan would not take place in an atmosphere filled with violence and claimed that this was encapsulated in the Sharm-el-Sheikh statement. Replying to a discussion on the working of his Ministry in the Rajya Sabha, External Affairs Minister S.M.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - With a hostile opposition continuing its attack on the controversial India-Pakistan joint statement, the government Friday clarified that progress in dialogue with Islamabad would not be possible "in an atmosphere vitiated by violence". "Progress is not possible in our dialogue with Pakistan in an atmosphere vitiated by violence or the threat to use violence," External Affairs Minister S.M.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has reiterated in Lok Sabha that India will not hold any talks with Pakistan unless the neighbouring country stops allowing its territory to be used by anti-India terror outfits.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh clearly answered all the questions the opposition had raised about the India-Pakistan joint statement, the Congress party said Wednesday. Every question (on the joint statement) has been answered clearly by the prime minister, Congress leader and central minister Kapil Sibal told reporters in parliament after Manmohan Singh replied to a debate in the Lok Sabha on the joint statement.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Friday dispelled reports that Pakistan has given any dossier to India on Balochistan.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday told parliament that Pakistan did not give any dossier to India on Balochistan when he met his Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani in Egypt July 16. No such dossier was given, Manmohan Singh said while intervening in a debate in Lok Sabha on the July 16 India-Pakistan joint statement at Sharm-el-Sheikh that delinked Islamabad's action on terror from the composite dialogue process.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistan has admitted for the first time that its nationals carried out a terrorist attack in India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday. "It is the first that they have admitted that their nationals in a terrorist organisation based in Pakistan carried out a ghastly attack in India," Manmohan Singh said in his reply to the debate in Lok Sabha on the India-Pakistan joint statement issued in Egypt.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the third time Wednesday, as soon as it convened after lunch, as opposition MPs shouted slogans against the government. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had been scheduled to make a statement on the India-Pakistan joint statement.

July 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The India-Pakistan joint statement signed in Egypt was against the "national consensus" that there should be no talks until Pakistan takes concrete action against terrorism, BJP leader L.K. Advani said Tuesday after meeting President Pratibha Patil along with NDA parliamentarians.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - MPs from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, will Tuesday meet President Pratibha Patil over the government's "capitulation" to Pakistan on terrorism and other foreign policy issues, party leaders said.

July 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Wednesday said Pakistan has not responded positively to India's proposal for an extradition treaty. "India has proposed an extradition treaty to Pakistan in the Home Secretary talks in the composite dialogue since 2004, External Affairs Minister S.M.

July 6th, 2009 ABOHAR - Radio Pakistan in its Punjabi Durbar programme has taken up the cause of Dalit community in India.The Radio Pakistan has said that the Dalits in India do not have even basic rights. The allegation has been rubbished by Babu Ram Chawla, General Secretary of All India Khatik Samaj and Mangat Ram Chayal, Vice Chairman of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (Schedule Caste department).

May 12th, 2009 HANDWARA - Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has welcomed Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's statement that, 'India is not a threat to his country'. Addressing a rally here on Monday, Abdullah said, "I must thank Pakistan President for his statement which he recently made in America that Pakistan's enemy is not India, Pakistan has no threat from India, Pakistan has threat from terror, Taliban and militancy," Abdullah said Zardari's statement, made during the course of an interview to a popular US news channel, comes in the wake of Pakistan moving away troops from its eastern border with India to fight the Taliban.