India, Pakistan delink terrorism from dialogue

August 18th, 2009 SHIMLA - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Tuesday said he was happy Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had realised there was terror threat emanating from Pakistan.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - With a hostile opposition continuing its attack on the controversial India-Pakistan joint statement, the government Friday clarified that progress in dialogue with Islamabad would not be possible "in an atmosphere vitiated by violence". "Progress is not possible in our dialogue with Pakistan in an atmosphere vitiated by violence or the threat to use violence," External Affairs Minister S.M.

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Strongly backing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's declaration that there was no dilution of the national consensus on countering terrorism emanating from Pakistan, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Thursday said India's foreign policy with respect to its neighbour had not changed. No one should be in any doubt on our party's position vis--vis Pakistan.

July 28th, 2009 ABOHAR - India has time and again stated that Pakistan should stop allow its territory to be used by terrorists against India, before any serious dialogue could commence. Radio Pakistan seems to be worried that forces in Pakistan would continue their terrorist acts, and the possibility of an India-Pakistan dialogue would recede.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Dispelling speculation about a rift in the ruling Congress over the India-Pakistan statement in Egypt, the party said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will clear the air in parliament Wednesday. The Congress is confident (that) when the prime minister speaks in parliament July 29, he will set at rest all the questions, all apprehensions and speculation relating to the Indo-Pak joint statement at Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt, Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said here.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - MPs from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani, will Tuesday meet President Pratibha Patil over the government's "capitulation" to Pakistan on terrorism and other foreign policy issues, party leaders said.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged a walkout in the Lok Sabha Friday, alleging the government had capitulated to Pakistan on the terrorism issue, soon after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh read out a statement on his meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani. You have delinked terrorism and the composite dialogue.

July 16th, 2009 Sharm el-SHEIKH - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet and discuss the nature of dialogue between the two countries in the future and will review action against terrorism. Manmohan Singh also made it clear that another Mumbai-like terrorist attack will affect dialogue of any kind.

July 16th, 2009 Sharm-el-SHEIKH - Nearly eight months after the Mumbai attacks, the India-Pakistan dialogue was back on track with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani agreeing after nearly three hours of talks to share "real time credible and actionable information" on any future terrorist threats. In a significant development, the two countries issued a joint statement declaring that they would delink "action on terrorism" from the composite dialogue process.

July 16th, 2009 Sharm el-SHEIKH - Nearly eight months after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, India and Pakistan Thursday sought to put their strained ties back on track by delinking action on terror from the composite dialogue process. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani met in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm-el-Sheikh Thursday.

June 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US has said it will support continuing dialogue between India and Pakistan them to find joint solutions to counter terrorism and to promote regional stability, but leave it to them how to go about it. "We will also continue to support dialogue between Indian and Pakistani leaders," Robert O.

June 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan seriously believes that composite dialogue is in the interest of both India and Pakistan, foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit said here Thursday. "Talks are unavoidable for durable peace and prosperity in the region," Basit said at a weekly press briefing.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in the next few weeks and review Islamabad's actions against terrorism before taking a decision on resuming their "composite dialogue", it was decided during talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari here Tuesday. The two leaders agreed to a meeting between their foreign secretaries to discuss the "primary issue" of terrorism and report to them before the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian town of Sharm-al-Sheikh in mid-July, officials said.

June 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of External Affairs SM Krishna on Friday said India will resume dialogue with Pakistan only if they take concrete measures to prevent terrorist attacks. Talking to reporters here, Krishna said, "There will not be any talks between India and Pakistan unless they take concrete measures to prevent terrorist attacks emanating from Pakistan aimed against India.

April 22nd, 2009 ON BOARD AIRCRAFT TO MADHYA PRADESH - The Bharatiya Janata Party's Prime Ministerial candidate, L.K. Advani, on Wednesday declared that if the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was elected to power at the end of this year's general elections, one of his first tasks would be to scrap the joint-anti-terrorism mechanism that exists between India and Pakistan.