India wants effective channel to deal with Pakistan: KrishnaOctober 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna on Thursday said that India and Pakistan should work out an effective channel to deal with all issues concerning the two countries.
We've not diluted position on Pak: Manmohan SinghJuly 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.
US wants India, Pakistan to talk on KashmirJuly 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.
Pakistan's approach sending conflicting signals to India: KrishnaJuly 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.
India still waiting for action on 26/11 culprits: KrishnaJuly 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ahead of the meeting between Indian and Pakistani leaders in Egypt later this month, India Wednesday said it is not "afraid to talk" to Pakistan but expects Islamabad to take concrete and visible action against terrorist outfits before deciding on resuming the dialogue. "We are not afraid to talk...
Obama says US won't play mediator on Kashmir issueJune 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has ruled out any American mediation on Kashmir issue, by saying that bilateral dialogue is the best way to reduce tension between India and Pakistan. "We want to be helpful in that process, but I don't think it's appropriate for us to be the mediators in that process.
Give up obsession with India, Obama to tell ZardariMay 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is expected to press Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari again to give up its obsession with India as its main threat and instead focus on the armed threat from militant extremists. 'I think he will reiterate what he said to you guys last week,' White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday when asked if Obama would tell Zardari when he meets him Wednesday that 'there's no threat from India'.
No evidence of India supporting terror in Pak: HolbrookeApril 25th, 2009 LAHORE - US Special Representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke has said there is no evidence that India is supporting violence in Pakistan. "If the Indians were supporting those miscreants in Pakistan that would be extraordinarily bad, really dangerous, but they are not doing so.
Sharif would talk to India if Mumbai like attacks took place in PakApril 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.
Pakistan not to get a blank cheque from the US, says ObamaMarch 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States President Barack Obama, while unveiling his new Pak-Afghan strategy on Friday, has said that Pakistan must demonstrate its commitment to root out Al-Qaida. "We cannot and we will not give a blank cheque to Pakistan," said Obama, adding: "extremists are a cancer that is killing Pakistan from within"
"We will pursue constructive diplomacy with both India and Pakistan," Obama added.
Terrorism, not India real enemy of Pakistan: USMarch 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg has said the United States would like India to help Pakistan deal with the problem of extremism, and in return, US expects Pakistan to recognise that terrorism, and not India, is its real enemy. "I think it will be important for India to make clear that as Pakistan takes steps to deal with extremists on its own territory that India will be supportive of that," he said.
We are examining India's response to 26/11 dossier: Pakistan envoyMarch 22nd, 2009 PANAJI - Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik Saturday said that his government is examining India's response to the 26/11 terror attack questions. 'Pakistan's interior ministry is in the process of examining India's response to the questionnaire,' Malik said at a function organised by the Goa non-resident Indians commissionerate here.
Obama will be fair to India, Pakistan, says his Harvard classmateJanuary 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - US president-elect Barack Obama 'will be fair to both India and Pakistan, without sacrificing American strategic interests', says an Indian who studied with him at the Harvard Law School. Surat Singh, who is headed for Washington to attend the presidential inauguration next Tuesday as a special guest, says he is looking forward to the ceremony but before that, the brunch for the Harvard Law School alumni that Barack and Michelle Obama are to host Sunday.
India should not talk of surgical strikes: MusharrafJanuary 9th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - India should not talk of 'surgical strikes' on Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attack, as forces were ready to 'retaliate to any aggression', former president Pervez Musharraf said Saturday. 'India should not talk rubbish like surgical strikes.
We have non-state actors, says ZardariDecember 26th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said Saturday that his country did have 'non-state actors', a term he used to describe terrorists who ravaged Mumbai last month. 'We have issues? Yes, we have issues.
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