India ready to talk to anyone desiring peace: PM

September 23rd, 2009 Ahmadinejad: Iran ready to build world peaceUNITED NATIONS — Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country is ready to shake all hands "that are honestly extended to us." Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, he announced Iran's commitment to participate in building durable peace and security worldwide for all nations while defending the country's legitimate and legal rights.

August 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India desires peace with all its neighbours in South Asia, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday. We want peace with our neighbours.

August 4th, 2009 Defense minister: Israel should join US initiativeJERUSALEM — Defense Minister Ehud Barak says Israel should join the U.S. peace initiative for the Middle East when it's ready.

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 17th, 2009 ON BOARD AIR INDIA ONE - Days after the alleged rape of two women in Shopian town of Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said the government will take effective action against the perpetrators and offered to hold talks with all groups, including those outside the political mainstream, to bring peace and stability to the state. "It's a very unfortunate development.

June 17th, 2009 India says its ready to talk peace with PakistanNEW DELHI — India's prime minister said Wednesday that his country is again ready to talk peace with Pakistan following a six-month freeze between the nuclear-armed rivals in the wake of last year's terror attack in Mumbai. But Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cautioned that relations between the neighbors remain "under considerable stress" and progress would be slow — with each step forward dependent on Islamabad's willingness to take on anti-India militants.

May 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congratulating Nepal's new prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, India Monday hoped that the peace process, including the framing of the constitution, would move expeditiously and offered the country any support it needed. "We congratulate Madhav Nepal on his election as the Prime Minister of Nepal, External Affairs Minister S.M.

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 19th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the country is ready with its own anti-terrorism strategy which it would be sharing with the United States soon. "Our policy is ready, and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi would visit the US in the first week of May to share this policy with the American administration," The Daily quoted Gilani, as saying.

April 12th, 2009 LAHORE - While India has taken a tough stance scrapping all bilateral talks with Pakistan in the wake of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks ,former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that he would have initiated talks with the neighbouring country if such an incident had occurred on his own soil. "If I were the prime minister, I would have seen how concerned India was and what India's involvement was.

April 9th, 2009 JAMMU - Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed Thursday said his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would work to re-initiate peace talks between India and Pakistan. 'With the support of the people the PDP will persuade both India and Pakistan to re-initiate the peace process and take concrete steps for the solution of the Kashmir problem,' Mufti Sayeed said at an election meeting in Mendhar, 200 km north of Jammu.

February 21st, 2009 GUWAHATI - A splinter group of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) Friday said it has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, formally giving up its demand for independence for Assam and instead seeking maximum autonomy for the state. 'We have put forward an 18-point charter of demands, a copy of which was sent to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for active consideration,' Mrinal Hazarika, president of the pro-talks ULFA faction, told journalists.

January 4th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that peace talks could be held with rebel groups only if they laid down arms first has evoked angry reactions, with pro-talk militant factions in Assam terming the precondition as unacceptable. 'The prime minister's precondition of first laying down weapons and then beginning peace talks is unrealistic and hence not acceptable to us,' Jiten Dutta, senior leader of the pro-talk faction of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), told IANS.

January 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Monday, while talking to a senior US official, said that his government was ready to cooperate with India in the investigations of the Mumbai terror attacks and wants peace in the region. The prime minister was talking to US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher who called on him Monday to discuss the tension between Pakistan and India and other issues regarding terrorism in the region.

January 2nd, 2009 SHILLONG - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday asked Pakistan to hand over the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks so that they can be tried in India, even as he stressed that war cannot be a solution. 'War is no solution to solve the problems and we want better sense to prevail on Pakistan by handing over those perpetrators and criminals so that they can be tried in India,' the prime minister told reporters here after inaugurating the 96th Indian Science Congress.