Bush urges India, Pakistan to show restraint

September 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - India has demanded that Pakistan take "more decisive action" against Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. "We want Saeed to be tried for his Mumbai attack," Indian External Affairs Minister S.M.

July 7th, 2009 Clinton urges restraint in riots in western ChinaWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging restraint in clashes in western China. Clinton told reporters Tuesday that the United States is "deeply concerned" about worsening ethnic violence in China's oil-rich Xinjiang territory.

June 19th, 2009 BRUSSELS - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari during a meeting here with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday urged her to play a role for restoration of talks between Islamabad and New Delhi, a media report said. Apprising her of the ongoing military operation against the Taliban, Zardari said Pakistan wants peace and has continued its offensives against the terrorists, Geo TV said.

May 31st, 2009 NEW YORK - US President Barack Obama's key Advisor on South Asia, Bruce Riedel, has said that Pakistan too can secure a civil nuclear deal with the US, similar to what Washington recently had with India, but it will need certain assurances from Islamabad to qualify for the same. Riedel, in his article published in The Wall Street Journal, said that Pakistan needs to show that the days of AQ Khan, Kargil and Mumbai are over for good and that it is addressing all the challenges it faces.

May 5th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan and India should restore trust between them so that peace could be established in the region, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday. The two countries should also focus on improving the economic condition of their peoples, he said while speaking to Indian High Commissioner Sharad Sabharwal, who called on him here, Geo TV reported.

April 24th, 2009 US urges Pakistan to focus on Taliban, not IndiaWASHINGTON — The United States is urging Pakistan's military to focus more on the Taliban and extremists advancing inside their borders instead of the nation's longtime enemy — India. The top U.S.

April 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - General David Petraeus, architect of the US military surge credited with dramatically reducing violence in Iraq, has said that Pakistan's leaders need to realise that their biggest threat comes from internal extremists, not from neighbouring India. 'It's an intellectually dislocating idea for the institutions of Pakistan,' Petraeus, the leader of US Central Command, which oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, told a forum at the Harvard University Tuesday, referring to the country's military and political establishment.

April 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Thursday urged India to resume the sub-continental composite dialogue process that has been frozen in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, a suggestion New Delhi has repeatedly and flatly rejected. 'It will be better to resume the dialogue process as it will be better for the region and for the progress and prosperity of the people,' Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said during his weekly briefing here.

April 2nd, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has charged former US President George W. Bush and his then Pakistan counterpart General Pervez Musharraf of promoting terrorism in the region.

March 19th, 2009 JAMMU/NEW DELHI - In the wake of intelligence reports indicating an increased threat to India from Pakistan based-terrorist groups in the run-up to and during the April-May general elections, Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday asked political leaders to exercise 'prudence' and 'restraint' during their campaigning.

January 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has appealed to the world powers to come forward and play their role towards easing tensions between Pakistan and India, GEO TV reported. Speaking at a dinner reception hosted in honour of the foreign ambassadors Saturday, President Zardari expressed concern that prevailing India-Pakistan tensions could sabotage efforts being made for bringing stability and peace in the region.

January 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Friday pledged $1 million to a UN agency for providing relief to civilians in the Gaza Strip who have been badly affected by the Israeli air strikes and again urged for resumption of peace process in the region. In response to the flash appeal made by United Nations Refugee Welfare Agency (UNRWA), the Indian government has decided to extend an assistance of $1 million for use by the agency to provide shelters, cash assistance, essential household items etc., to affected families in Gaza, external affairs ministry spokesperson Vishnu Prakash said here.

December 31st, 2008 WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush has asked India and Pakistan to cooperate with each other in the investigation of the Nov 26 Mumbai terror attack blamed on the Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

December 28th, 2008 NEW DELHI - India Monday condemned the Israeli attacks in Palestine saying it was 'disappointing' to note that the use of 'disproportionate force' has resulted in a large number of civilian casualties in Gaza. A statement by the ministry of external affairs said: 'This continued use of indiscriminate force is unwarranted and condemnable.' 'It is disappointing that the use of disproportionate force was resulting in a large number of civilian casualties one one hand and escalating violence on the other.

December 26th, 2008 MOSCOW - Russia Saturday urged asked India and Pakistan to show restraint and prevent the use of force amid rising tensions between the two South Asian neighbours. 'Russia urges India and Pakistan to show maximum restraint and prevent the use of force on the border,' the foreign ministry said in a statement.