‘I am willing to come to India to talk,’ says Pak FS

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 11th, 2009 LONDON - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Murali Manohar Joshi, L.K. Advani, Sushma Swaraj and their former colleague Jaswant Singh have stopped talking to each other, according to Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora.

September 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said he expects to meet Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna in New York during which discussion will take place on the Mumbai terror attack.

July 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - : President Zardari's statement that India no longer remains a threat to the country, were his 'personal views', Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf aza Gilani has said. Talking to media persons after returning from Sharm-el-Sheikh, Gilani said there is a need for a more 'careful' approach while talking about the relations between the two neighboring countries.

July 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left on a much awaited trip to India, the US again stressed the importance it placed on the role India can play not just in the region, but as a global player. Clinton's series of meetings with current and former officials, lawmakers and think tanks in the run up to the visit is "an indication of the importance that Secretary Clinton and the administration, in general, places on our relationship with India, with the world's largest democracy," State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said Thursday.

July 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US Wednesday assured India that it should have no apprehension that the G-8 decision to put a bar on helping non-NPT countries to reprocess uranium would throw the India-US civil nuclear deal off track. "I don't think there should be any apprehension about the future of the civil nuclear agreement," Assistant Secretary for South Central Asian Affairs Robert O.

July 11th, 2009 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said talk of US President Barack Obama and his administration being not supportive towards India had "no basis". "I find President Obama very supportive (towards India).

July 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Even as the US recognises that India and Pakistan are two sovereign nations, it can still do much to encourage them to continue to talk in the event of another Mumbai type of attack, according to Washington's new envoy to India. "I think there's a lot of work here for me to do, and for the administration and the Congress to do," Ambassador designate Timothy Roemer told the Senate Foreign Relations panel at his confirmation hearing Tuesday.

July 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Calling Kashmir as a "sensitive hotspot", President Barack Obama's nominee to be his envoy in India says the US would diplomatically encourage India and Pakistan to talk about the "delicate and sensitive issue". "I think it is an issue.

June 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama would like India and Pakistan to have a dialogue to resolve their differences, but the US cannot dictate how they should go about it or mediate in the process. "I believe that there are opportunities, maybe not starting with Kashmir but starting with other issues, that Pakistan and India can be in a dialogue together and over time to try to reduce tensions and find areas of common interest," Obama told Pakistan's Dawn group in an interview published Sunday.

June 15th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - The much-awaited meet between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will be an "official and structured" half-and-an-hour meeting instead of being a mere handshake-meet as being widely believed, said top Government sources on Monday. The two leaders' meet will take place on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit on Tuesday.

June 15th, 2009 LONDON - Parents are relaxed about their children carrying contraceptives, according to a new poll. The study of more than 1,000 people found that 20 percent parents have even bought condoms to keep at home for their youngsters.

June 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States says it would support more dialogue between India and Pakistan but has ruled out the appointment of a special envoy to deal with Kashmir that Islamabad contends is the key issue with New Delhi. "No, there's - there are no plans to that effect," State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters Tuesday when asked if there was any prospect of a special envoy to be appointed specifically for Kashmir.

May 21st, 2009 COLOMBO - The former commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam's eastern forces, Colonel 'Karuna' has said that he has no doubt about the fact that LTTE supremo V.Prabhakaran being killed and added that he would like to apologise personally to the Gandhi family for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. In an interview to a television channel, Colonel 'Karuna' said: "I have been with him (Prabhakaran) for so many years so there was no doubt.

April 25th, 2009 LAHORE - US Special Representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke has said there is no evidence that India is supporting violence in Pakistan. "If the Indians were supporting those miscreants in Pakistan that would be extraordinarily bad, really dangerous, but they are not doing so.