India ‘impressive’ in Afghanistan: David Miliband

October 8th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, has discovered a long-lost relative in Russia who identified herself on a radio interview during his recent visit to Moscow, it was reported Thursday. Miliband, whose brother David is Foreign Secretary, was taking questions on a Moscow radio station when an elderly woman rung in and said in Russian: "I am Sofia Davidovna Miliband, I am your relative - I am the only one left." Although radio staff were initially concerned that the call was a hoax and cut her short, Miliband went to meet the 87-year-old former academic.

August 17th, 2009 LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has been rapped for his suggestion that terrorism can be a good thing at times. According to reports, Miliband had said that violent action or terrorism may be justifiable in some cases, in a tribute to African National Congress's armed struggle in South Africa.

July 29th, 2009 LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has commended efforts of the Obama administration to re-balance the relationship between the United States and Pakistan saying it is very important to stabilize Pakistan in order to maintain peace in Afghanistan. "We need a more stable Pakistan to get a more stable Afghanistan.

July 29th, 2009 Clinton praises British approach on AfghanistanWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday praised Britain's call to reconcile with moderate Taliban guerrillas. In a joint appearance with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Clinton said the allies agreed about how to handle the Taliban.

July 27th, 2009 BRUSSELS - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has urged NATO members to change strategies on Afghanistan in a bid to facilitate talks with moderate elements of the Taliban. In a speech delivered at the NATO headquarters, Miliband said that while it was vital to keep pressing forward with the military campaign against the insurgents, it would also be prudent to start a Northern Ireland-style dialogue with the enemy.

July 9th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The resumption of the stalled peace talks between India and Pakistan rests on the successful prosecution of the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband has said. Addressing a joint press conference with his Pakistan counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Miliband said the thaw in Indo-Pak relation is directly related to the trial of the Mumbai terror attack masterminds.

July 6th, 2009 LAHORE - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said that the Pakistan Army and the ISI should stop their double game of supporting militants against India and then clamping down when pressurised to act. Asked whether the Pakistan Army and ISI were still playing a double game - sometimes supporting the militants for use against India and clamping down on them and whether this vicious cycle has been broken, Miliband replied, "This cycle has to be stopped." Miliband said Pakistan's national security was not threatened by India, but by terrorism and extremism, adding that India had better things to do as a major power than be involved in a standoff with Pakistan.

April 20th, 2009 LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband paid handsome tributes to his opposite number Pranab Mukherjee Monday three months after raising eyebrows in New Delhi with a statement about Kashmir. Miliband made opportunistic use of a London Book Fair event to praise Mukherjee's 'breadth of vision' following the Indian external affairs minister's call for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Sri Lanka.

April 18th, 2009 GLASGOW - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said that Pakistan's internal problems are a major factor for the spread of terrorism in the country, not the presence of United States and British forces in Afghanistan. In a meeting with the Muslim community in Glasgow, Miliband said Pakistan faced more threats from internal terrorism, as it was facing various lingual, ethnic and sectarian problems Islamabad's democratic institutions could not be strengthened by military rules in the country, he added.

March 21st, 2009 LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said that the Taliban has achieved a "strategic stalemate" in Afghanistan.is statement came as he refused to say whether he wanted to reduce the number of British forces in the country. Miliband told the BBC: "In parts of the country there is a strategic stalemate.

March 7th, 2009 LONDON - Iran is to be invited to join a South Asian regional security conference centred on Afghanistan, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Friday. Miliband said the meeting was a follow-up to the international conference on Afghanistan held in Paris June 2008 and co-chaired by the European Union presidency, United Nations secretary general and the Afghan government.

March 7th, 2009 LONDON - Iran is to be invited to join a regional security conference that will be centred on Afghanistan but is also expected to take in the situation in Pakistan. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Friday the meeting was a follow-up to the international conference on Afghanistan held in Paris June 2008 and co-chaired by the European Union presidency, United Nations secretary general and the Afghan government.

January 14th, 2009 AMETHI - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband got a flavour of bucolic India - a thatched house and a rope cot to sleep in as cows and buffaloes grazed in the backyard -- when he and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi spent Wednesday night at the home of Dalits in a village. Both retired for the night after attending a non-formal panchayat in Semra village for about three-and-a-half hours.

January 13th, 2009 AMETHI - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband Wednesday visited Rajiv Gandhi's Lok Sabha constituency Amethi with the Congress MP to see how the poor benefit from development schemes, but tight security kept the media at a safe distance. Gandhi and a 15-member British delegation led by Miliband reached the Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow and drove down to Amethi, about 80 km away, on a two-day trip.

January 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband will visit his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday, according a party official. 'A British delegation will be (in Amethi) for two days,' Uttar Pradesh Congress spokesperson Akhilesh Pratap Singh told IANS.