China urged to persuade Pakistan to dismantle terror network

May 29th, 2009 BANGALORE - External Affairs minister S.M.Krishna on Friday said that peace process with Pakistan could only resume if Pakistan dismantled terror aiding set-ups functioning on its soil. Addressing media persons here, Krishna said Pakistan is expected to take certain step to show India and the rest of the world that it is actually serious about fighting terrorism.

May 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistan "must take credible action" to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism on its soil if it wants to resume dialogue with India, new External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said here Saturday.

April 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amid a wave of terror blasts in Pakistan, India Sunday said dismantling terrorist infrastructure was in Islamabad's own 'interest'. 'We want development and peace in neighbourhood for stability.

March 20th, 2009 MUMBAI - Union Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma on Thursday said the Pakistan authorities should take action under the international law and the bilateral assurances given by them. "It is the duty of Pakistan to take action under international law and the bilateral assurances and treaties that have been given," Sharma said at a press conference here.

March 4th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here Wednesday that the time had come when Pakistan needed to act decisively against the perpetrators of terror. 'The elements used by Pakistan in Afghanistan and other countries in the past are now spreading terror there,' Abdullah told reporters here.

March 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a stinging attack on Pakistan, the Congress party said Tuesday that Islamabad itself was to blame for the terrorist attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore and called the country the 'Somalia of South Asia'. 'Pakistan is a victim of its own polity,' Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari told reporters here, commenting on the Lahore incident that killed six Pakistani policemen and wounded six players from Sri Lanka.

March 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party Tuesday said the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore was the result of the 'space' that Pakistan has been conceding to terrorists and the international community must build pressure on Pakistan to dismantle the terror infrastructure on its soil. 'The attack on Sri Lankan cricketers makes it evident that it is the result of the space that Pakistan has been conceding to terrorists and hard-liners.

February 27th, 2009 COLOMBO - Holding a secretary-level meeting with Pakistan for the first time after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, India Thursday urged its neighbour to do more to bring the perpetrators to book and 'take credible action to dismantle the resources of terrorists'. Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon held talks with his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on the sidelines of the 36th session of the SAARC Standing Committee in Colombo.

February 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistan should completely dismantle terrorist outfits operating out of its soil and it was not enough for it to admit that the Mumbai strike was planned there, political parties in India said Thursday. Islamabad admitted for the first time that 'a part of the conspiracy' related to the Mumbai terror attacks was planned on its soil and that it had arrested six suspects.

February 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Thursday evening welcomed as a 'positive step' Pakistan's admission that elements from that country were responsible for the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, and reiterated India's hope that Islamabad would take 'credible steps' to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure on its territory. 'Pakistan authorities have admitted that elements in Pakistan were responsible for the terror attack,' he said.

January 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - As police gunned down two suspected Pakistani terrorists in Noida near here early Sunday, Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma reminded Pakistan to fulfill its commitment of fighting terrorism. 'Terror groups operating in Pakistan are trying to destabilise India,' Sharma told the Times Now news channel.

January 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defence Minister A.K. Antony Wednesday called on Pakistan to book those who gave 'inspiration, direction and support' to the terrorists who staged the Mumbai mayhem and to 'dismantle' the terror outfits functioning on its soil.

December 25th, 2008 NEW DELHI - Intensifying its diplomatic offensive, India has made it clear to the US and Iran as well as Pakistan's key allies, China and Saudi Arabia, that they need to do more to use their clout to pressurize Pakistan into acting against the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi Thursday night and conveyed New Delhi's growing impatience with Pakistan's denial and diversionary tactics.

December 22nd, 2008 BEIJING - China Tuesday called on India and Pakistan to probe the Mumbai terror attacks through peaceful consultations. 'We hope to see improvement in the India-Pakistan relations,' foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a press conference in responding to questions on the South Asia situation.

December 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - Rejecting war as a response to the Mumbai mayhem, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday asked Pakistan to take 'objective' steps to 'dismantle the terror machine' and exhorted the international community to persuade Islamabad to comply with the UN resolutions against terrorism. 'The issue is not war.