Pakistan not positive on extradition treaty proposal: India

September 25th, 2009 JAIPUR - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has said that India will not adhere to any treaty such as the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and will not sign it as long as it is discriminatory. Tharoor was reacting to a call by US President Barack Obama, who while chairing a historic meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday appealed the nuclear weapon states to scrap their deadly arsenal.

September 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon demanded Thursday that the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) be implemented as quickly as possible. At the opening of a two-day conference of around 100 foreign ministers in New York, Ban called for all of the nine states which had not yet ratified the treaty to begin negotiations immediately.

September 12th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Bangladesh's pledge to sign a treaty enabling transfer of sentenced militants and criminals and crack down on Indian separatists in its territory has evoked a positive response in Assam. If such a treaty is signed, then it is surely a positive development.

September 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Visiting Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni today said India and Bangladesh are close to finalizing an extradition treaty. Talking to reporters at Bangladesh House in Delhi, Moni said that the extradition treaty is under discussion.

August 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will arrive here Tuesday for a five-day visit - his first trip to India after becoming premier. Nepal is expected to hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Foreign Minister S. M. Krishna on Thursday said that India would continue its determined efforts to conclude an extradition treaty with Pakistan, despite the latter's unwillingness.

July 30th, 2009 New Delhi, July (ANI): External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that India has been asking Pakistan to hand over 42 fugitives, including Dawood Ibrahim, but Islamabad is reluctant to cooperate.

July 30th, 2009 Indo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI - A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the dialogue with Islamabad will depend on its action against terror, India Thursday said it has been asking Pakistan to hand over 42 fugitives, including mafia don Dawood Ibrahim, but Islamabad had refused to cooperate, citing the lack of an extradition treaty. During question hour in the Rajya Sabha, External Affairs Minister S.M.

July 18th, 2009 NEW YORK - An influential US daily Saturday suggested an ambitious agenda for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in India ranging from a bilateral investment treaty to climate change and Doha trade talks but with "primary focus" on Pakistan. The India-US civil nuclear deal "was supposed to be the start of a beautiful new friendship," the New York Times said in an editorial.

April 28th, 2009 Holder hails progress on extradition treatyPRAGUE — U.S. and European investigators will move more quickly to catch and prosecute international terrorists, drug dealers and child pornographers under new agreements to be sealed Tuesday.

January 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after India indicated it was ready to accept a 'fair trial' of fugitives in Pakistan, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday said there was no question of 'our dilution of demand for extradition' of the suspects wanted for the Mumbai attack and other terrorist activities. 'Perpetrators must face Indian justice,' Mukherjee told reporters when asked whether there was a shift in India's demand asking Pakistan to extradite the masterminds of the Mumbai carnage.

January 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after he indicated India was willing to accept a trial of fugitives in Pakistan, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday hardened his posture, saying there was 'no question of a climbdown' and reiterated that the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage must face Indian justice. 'We have never given up the demand that perpetrators of terror acts should be extradited to India.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's ruling Congress Monday condemned Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi's statement that Islamabad could not hand over the 40 alleged terrorists whose list was given by New Delhi since there was no extradition treaty between the two countries. Party spokesperson Manish Tewari told reporters that according to a convention signed by the member-countries of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to root out terrorism, Pakistan was duty-bound to hand over the terrorists to New Delhi.

January 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Sunday said his government wanted to revive the peace process with rival India which stalled after the Mumbai terror attacks. Qureshi said the 'unfortunate' Nov 26 terrorist siege in India's financial capital were a grave 'setback' for improving ties between the two neighbours.

January 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Sunday reiterated that it would not handover the suspects of the Mumbai terror attacks in the country. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi made the remarks while talking to reporters in eastern Multan City.