‘Concerned’ Pak bans US diplomat to from discussing intelligence issues in media

September 26th, 2009 NEW YORK - The United States has once again made it clear that it would not interfere in issues concerning India and Pakistan, and that they should be resolved by the two countries themselves. Interacting with media persons here, US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Robert Blake, said it was important to resolve the pending issues between India and Pakistan, but Washington believes that it should be done by the two concerned states only.

September 25th, 2009 VIENNA - Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency it is building a second, previously unknown, uranium enrichment plant, the IAEA confirmed in Vienna Friday. Iran admitted to the site after finding out that Western intelligence agencies knew about the project, a diplomat briefed on intelligence findings said.

September 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - India and Pakistan are likely to start their stalled composite dialogue through backdoor channel diplomacy to resolve outstanding issues, The Nation quotes a report, as saying. Former Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan is considered the best diplomat to handle issues related to India after the death of one of his predecessors Niaz A.

September 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has decided to take up the Kashmir and Afghanistan issues during the upcoming United Nations General Assembly session, Online news agency reported. Pakistan would inform the international community about its reservations on India's intentions to resolve the Kashmir issue as well as on the war against terrorism in Afghanistan.

September 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Iftaar dinner hosted by the Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabarwal here had an unusual guest, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lieutenant General Shuja Pasha, which has rumour mills suggesting that there is some behind the curtain talks going on between India and the intelligence agency. Pasha stayed in the party, which was hosted at the maximum-security five-star Serena hotel, for 45 minutes, and shared the table with Sabharwal.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - Britain has been accused of treating Pakistan like a whipping boy while failing to do enough to check home-grown British terrorism. A senior Pakistani diplomat was Wednesday quoted saying terrorists convicted Monday of planning to blow up transatlantic airliners were born and brought up in Britain, not Pakistan.

September 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram met with top US officials Wednesday to deepen counter-terrorism cooperation between the countries after the Mumbai attacks last year.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - A top Pakistani diplomat has reacted strongly to Britain's accusations regarding Pakistan harbouring extremists plotting to attack the UK. The diplomat charged Britain of not doing enough to tackle home grown terrorists and treating Pakistan as a "whipping boy".

August 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The US embassy here has denied reports that one of its diplomats had been declared persona-non-grata after an apparent scuffle with the police in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Gerald M. Feierstein, the charge de Affairs at the US mission here, told Online news agency that the facts about the incident, in which the diplomat allegedly pointed a gun at the police and which occurred in Peshawar's diplomatic enclave had been distorted.

July 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - While India has vehemently denied receiving any dossier from Pakistan in Egypt during the Indo-Pak talks on the sidelines of the NAM summit, Pakistan has maintained that it certainly has handed over documents to New Delhi regarding its involvement in Baloch unrest which has the diplomacy of both countries volleying against each other. Pakistani diplomats have termed the documents as "a balanced statement addressing the real issues", while a top Indian diplomat allayed claims of receiving any such document saying no dossier was given by Pakistan on Balochistan.

July 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has welcomed US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's remarks that New Delhi and Islamabad should settle the Kashmir problem bilaterally, and said it looked forward to resumption of the composite dialogue to discuss the issue. "The two countries have agreed to discuss this issue bilaterally by agreeing to the composite dialogue framework.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Security agencies have swung into action to provide multi-layered and impenetrable security to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her two-day visit to the national capital that begins Sunday. US intelligence officials have been consulted over the preparations, the police said Friday.

July 9th, 2009 LONDON - A British diplomat has resigned from his office after he was filmed having sex with two blonde hookers in Russia. James Hudson, 37, resigned from his posting to the Urals in disgrace over the sordid video.

May 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Stating that Pakistan's nuclear weapon is a "deterrent" against India, the country's top diplomat to the US Saturday expressed willingness to enter into an agreement with New Delhi to phase out all nuclear arms possessed by the two countries. Appearing on US television to make a public appeal to donate aid for the displaced people in the Swat valley, Pakistan's ambassador to the US Hussein Haqqani insisted that the nuclear weapons of his country are safe and there should be no concern about their security.

April 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The 'existential threat' that Pakistan is facing currently from the ever advancing Taliban has US President Barack Obama seriously worried. Talking to media persons at a prime-time news conference on the occasion of completing 100 days in office, Obama said he is "gravely concerned" about the stability of the Pakistani government.