Indian foreign minister to only discuss terror with Pakistan

September 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao on Saturday downplayed expectations from the proposed meeting between the Indian and Pakistani Foreign Ministers on the sidelines of the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly next week, adding that India cannot shut its eyes to the terror threat from Pakistan. "We hope and expect that Pakistan will focus in a meaningful manner on our concerns on terrorism.

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.

August 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - India on Friday handed over more evidence on the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai to Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik. Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao handed over the fresh proof to Malik during a meeting at her South Block office.

August 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI - A day after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said terror groups based in Pakistani territory were plotting attacks against India, Pakistan Tuesday said it couldn't take such remarks lightly and asked New Delhi to share information on such threats. "If the (Indian) prime minister says something like this, we can't take it lightly," Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told reporters on the sidelines of an official function in Islamabad.

August 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD - As Pakistan asked India to share information on fresh terror threats, New Delhi Tuesday said unless Islamabad takes credible action against the 26/11 suspects, it will be "extremely difficult" to resume meaningful talks. India also underlined that it has already "shared solid proof of possible terror attacks" from the Pakistani territory.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has reiterated in Lok Sabha that India will not hold any talks with Pakistan unless the neighbouring country stops allowing its territory to be used by anti-India terror outfits.

July 13th, 2009 PARIS - India was still studying the dossier on the probe into the Mumbai terror attack handed to it by Pakistan, a senior official travelling with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Monday, a day before the foreign secretaries of the two countries are to meet in Egypt. The dossier was handed by Pakistani internal security minister Rehman Malik to Indian charge d' affaire Manpreet Vora in Islamabad late Saturday, sources disclosed.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistani High Commissioner Shahid Malik Tuesday met Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon here to decide on the dates for the proposed meeting of the foreign secretaries of the two countries. Even though there was no official word about the meeting, informed sources the foreign secretary's meeting may take place next week.

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 4th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here Wednesday that the time had come when Pakistan needed to act decisively against the perpetrators of terror. 'The elements used by Pakistan in Afghanistan and other countries in the past are now spreading terror there,' Abdullah told reporters here.

February 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Monday rejected the Indian allegations of its links with the Nov 26 Mumbai terror strike but said it will take the probe into the attack to its logical conclusion. 'Pakistan will try its best to take the Mumbai attack probe to its fruition, but at this stage the Indian allegations are not proving helpful,' The News quoted a foreign office spokesman as saying.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amid the deepening chill in India-Pakistan relations, Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrives here on a two-day visit Sunday to discuss counter-terror cooperation in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks. Karzai will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday to discuss the developments in the wake of the Nov 26 Mumbai carnage, in which India suspects the involvement of Pakistan-based elements and its official agencies.

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.

December 29th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tuesday asked India to deactivate its forward air bases and move troops back to the peacetime locations, saying Islamabad was ready to hold a dialogue with New Delhi. 'India should deactivate forward air bases and relocate forces to the peacetime locations,' Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on state-run Pakistan Television (PTV).

December 25th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Indian High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal Friday met Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir to discuss ways to defuse the growing tensions between the two countries in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, media reports said. Pal was recently in New Delhi for consultations with external affairs ministry officials on India's response following the Mumbai carnage.