Miliband says Pakistan’s domestic issues causing terrorism

October 13th, 2009 HOUSTON - Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has warned the United States that it should not try to "micromanage" Pakistan's anti-terrorism efforts against the Taliban. "Don't get into micromanaging how Pakistan works because we know how to do it better than you," the Daily Times Quoted Musharraf, as saying.

October 12th, 2009 LONDON - The United States is concerned over the growing clout of the extremists in Pakistan, however, it maintains that despite the threat, Pakistan's nuclear installations are safe. Addressing a joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband here, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday's brazen terror attack on the Pakistan Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi showed that the extremists threat to that country was growing, but contended that they did pose a risk to the nuclear arsenal.

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.

September 27th, 2009 LONDON - In what is being seen as David Miliband's veiled challenge to Gordon Brown demanding him to think about his succession plan, British Foreign Secretary has told the Prime Minister that 'future is the most important word in politics.' "I now think 'future' is the most important word in politics. The future is the key, and that means having a mental map that is looking forwards not backwards," he said.

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 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband's fifth visit to the country in the recent past had no meeting-specific agenda, which, according to analysts, is part of a new diplomatic move aimed at developing closer ties with the Pakistani people to solve the problem of terrorism in Britain's own backyard. Some analysts consider Miliband's visit very important in the view of the intelligence reports which said that almost three quarters of the terrorist attacks perpetrated on British soil had links with Pakistan.

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 9th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband Thursday said that he saw greater political consensus in Pakistan on countering "a multi-headed insurgency" which poses a grave threat to the country. "For visitors to Pakistan, who come here every three or four months, what I see is an unprecedented degree of political unity (in the face of a security threat)," Miliband told reporters in the eastern city of Lahore, where he met Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.

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.

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 18th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that without the destruction of "nests of terrorism" in Pakistan it is impossible to find a solution to the insurgency in Afghanistan. "It is clear that the situation in Afghanistan is directly linked to the situation in Pakistan.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has told Members of Parliament that he will not allow the public access to the government's secret interrogation policy. Acknowledging that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has ordered that the policy be rewritten after receiving a series of complaints, Miliband, however told MPs on the Commons foreign affairs select committee that he has no intention of making public the policy as it currently stands.

May 28th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - About 10,000 security personnel are guarding Pakistans nuclear arsenal and Western fears about the safety of the weapons are unfounded, a senior official has said. Air Commodore Khalid Banuri, director of arms control and disarmament affairs at the Strategic Plans Division (SPD), said that Pakistans command and control structure for the weapons was better than that of many other nuclear-armed states, and many countries had officially acknowledged this, DawnNews reported Thursday.

May 3rd, 2009 LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to waste hundreds of thousands of pounds on a private jet to whisk him around the world. As recession-hit Britain struggles under the weight of a historic debt, Miliband plans to travel in five-star luxury rather than take scheduled flights.