India to review Pakistan’s actions on terror before talks: PM

July 23rd, 2009 PHUKET - Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi were in this Thai island resort for Asias security forum meeting, but they just exchanged greetings and left bilateral talks for their interaction on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in September.

July 5th, 2009 ON BOARD - External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna on Sunday said that Pakistan was sending conflicting signals on punishing the perpetrators of Mumbai terror attacks which occurred last November.

June 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik is here to help finalise the dates and the agenda for the forthcoming India-Pakistan talks, a media report said Thursday. Malik, who met Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon in New Delhi Tuesday to decide on the dates for the proposed meeting of the foreign secretaries of the two countries, has arrived here Wednesday to hold consensus regarding the talks, Online news agency reported quoting Pakistan's foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit.

June 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan wants the world at large and the US in particular to play a role in resolving its disputes with India, including that of Kashmir, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Thursday. The resolution of Pakistans core issues would help it focus on the war against extremism and terrorism on its western border to ensure peace and stability in South Asia, APP news agency quoted Gilani as saying when visiting US National Security Advisor James Jones called on him here.

June 17th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has termed the meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Russia as positive but said no conditions should be laid down for resuming the sub-continental dialogue that New Delhi suspended in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. We are of the viewpoint that the negotiations should not be conditional as we cannot understand each other without negotiations so we expect to make dialogue result oriented and irreversible," Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit told a private TV channel Wednesday.

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 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India reiterated Thursday the subcontinental dialogue process could not resume unless Pakistan acts credibly against terror directed against this country. There is no change in our position.

April 22nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Wednesday that Pakistan was keen to hold talks with India on countering terrorism and widening their anti-terror mechanism. 'We are ready to talk as to how it (the mechanism) can be made more effective and as to how we can solidify mutual trust on this issue,' he told OneWorld TV channel.

April 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amid a wave of terror blasts in Pakistan, India Sunday said dismantling terrorist infrastructure was in Islamabad's own 'interest'. 'We want development and peace in neighbourhood for stability.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said Pakistan has to 'convince' India that it is 'absolutely sincere' in not allowing its territory to be used for terror acts against India as a 'minimum precondition' for further bilateral talks. Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the G-20 summit here, Manmohan Singh also said that India had provided Pakistan with all the answers to its queries on the 26/11 terror attacks and the ball was now 'in Pakistan's court' on bringing the perpetrators to book.

March 31st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik Tuesday reviewed the progress on Pakistan's probe into the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. 'The meeting reviewed the reply from India conveyed in response to the queries of Pakistani investigators and decided that the material be examined by the ministry of law before taking any further action,' an official statement said.

February 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday questioned Pakistan's seriousness in the war against terror, and noted its denials that Maulana Masood Azhar and Dawood Ibrahim, the two men India sought for trial in terrorist activities, were not in the country were 'not new'. 'First, Pakistan said he (Azhar) was under house arrest.

February 15th, 2009 MULTAN - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that India should take this country's questions seriously, otherwise it would be difficult to make further progress in investigations regarding the Mumbai terror attack, Online reported. Talking to mediapersons at Multan airport Sunday, Qureshi said India was changing its statements from time to time which was creating hurdles in the investigations.

February 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Six suspects, including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group, allegedly involved in the Mumbai terror attacks were sent to 14-day remand by a court here, Geo TV reported Sunday. Officials at Pakistan's foreign office said Saturday that the Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court has issued a 14-day physical remand of the six alleged suspects, into the custody of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).

February 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - India is yet to receive an official response on the dossier it has given to Pakistan on the Mumbai terror strikes, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Saturday. 'I am yet to receive any official communication from Islamabad so far,' Mukherjee told reporters.