Pak daily says India’s RAW collaborating with Afghanistan RAAM

September 27th, 2009 NEW YORK - The Unites States has yet again stressed that stability in Pakistan and Afghanistan is vital for the US mission in the region. Interacting with media persons after the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, US President Barack Obama said the main objective of the US forces fighting in Afghanistan is to dismantle the Al-Qaeda network and destroy its capacity to harm people across the world.

September 26th, 2009 DHAKA - Applauding India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission and the discovery of water on the moon, a Dhaka daily has said the find has significantly widened the scope for space research. But The Daily Star newspaper, in an editorial Saturday, cautioned against rivalry among those engaged in research and exploration on the moon.

September 25th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says people of Afghanistan as also European and American leaders are appreciative of India's role in Afghanistan where it has invested $1.5 billion to help reconstruction. "We have not supplied any arms, we are also helping them in construction and financing of projects in power, health and education sectors," he told reporters Friday when asked about a top US general's suggestion that India's growing influence in Afghanistan could "exacerbate" regional tensions.

September 25th, 2009 Lahore, Sep.25 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has said that if the US pulls out from Afghanistan then it would create more problems for both Pakistan and India. In an interview to ABC News, Musharraf said in case the US decides to call off its 'war on terror' in Afghanistan, the Al-Qaeda would then create great problems for the region.

September 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, has said that Islamabad is reluctant to target Taliban leaders present on its soil despite repeated appeals by America in this regard. In an interview with a US daily, Patterson said even after eight years of Pakistan agreeing to support the US in its war against the Al-Qaeda and Taliban, Islamabad, it appears, has 'different priorities' from the US.

September 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Islamabad is actually not worried about India's involvement in Afghanistan, but such involvement should not go against Pakistan's interests. Qureshi said India's role in Afghanistan should not be exaggerated, but added that New Delhi should also notice that its increased Afghan involvement does not prove counter productive for Pakistan.

September 5th, 2009 LONDON - Following defence aide Eric Joyce quitting over UK's war strategy in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown tried to defend his policy by saying that "we cannot walk away." Despite the growing death toll among British troops, Brown insisted the UK strategy in Afghanistan is the right one. "A safer Britain requires a safer Afghanistan," the Daily Star quoted Brown, as saying.

July 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - : Pakistan has reportedly handed over evidence of India's involvement in providing aid to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud to the United States and NATO. Sources said during the US Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke's recent visit to Islamabad, top military and political leaders gave certain ocumented and video tape evidence to him.

June 27th, 2009 LAHORE - The International Security Assistance Force deputy commander, Lieutenant General Jim Dutton, has said that the Pakistan military's operation against Baitullah Mehsud is extremely important in defeating the Taliban on both sides of the Pak-Afghanistan border. The Daily Times quoted him as saying, that the troop surge in Afghanistan could push the Taliban back to their original positions, including Pakistan.

June 25th, 2009 LAHORE - A leading US daily bribed the Taliban several times to set free one its staffers and his associate, who were kidnapped in Afghanistan last year, it has been learnt. According to the ABC News, The New York Times purportedly bribed Taliban guards through a private security agency to free one its reporters, David Rohde and his Afghan colleague.

June 10th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said the US move to send 21,000 extra troops to war-ravaged Afghanistan could have serious implications for his country. "Pakistan has talked through political and military ways at all levels to the stakeholders that transferring the problem from Afghanistan to Pakistan will not help resolve the issue," he told reporters in Islamabad on Tuesday.

June 7th, 2009 LAHORE - President Barack Obama's Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, has said the United States will trace the financial sources of the Taliban. Holbrooke said the Taliban is getting more money from private donors than from their opium trade, estimated to be about 300 million dollars a year.

June 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Foreign Office has said that New Delhi's pre-conditions to resumption of dialogue with Islamabad are untenable. Reacting to remarks made by the External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, spokesman Abdul Basit said the two countries were using diplomatic channels to see how the dialogue process could be resumed.

April 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.

April 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has tabled 'documentary proof' against India Afghanistan in the Senate, which supports its claims that the two countries are involved in the on-going unrest in Balochistan. The documents stated that New Delhi was providing tactical support and was funding and training Pakistani terror groups.