PM to Zardari: Do not allow use of Pak territory for terror against India

September 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - The resumption of the subcontinental composite dialogue is in the best interests of the region, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has said. At a meeting with former US president Bill Clinton here Monday, Zardari also reiterated that Pakistan was determined to prevent its territory from being used against any other country, APP reported.

September 19th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that terrorist and militants were deliberately created to achieve certain strategic goals and to counter rival ideology. "Militants and militancy were not created in a vacuum; they have been the product of a deliberate policy to fight the rival ideology," Zardari said.

September 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari said Thursday India should trust Pakistan on its investigations into the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. He expressed the views during a briefing by the foreign office at the Aiwan-e-Sadr here on relations with India and Afghanistan and the president's forthcoming US tour.

July 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Thursday said that the confession by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on nurturing of terrorists in his country has justified India's stand about terrorists originating form the neighbouring country. Krishna said that India has repeatedly maintained that Pakistan's soil was being used for terrorist attacks on India.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari says targeting the Taliban rather than India does not rankle his army because the two nuclear armed countries no longer pose threats to each others territories. "It rankles the small mind," he told the Daily Telegraph in an interview published Monday.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan President Asif Zardari has said he would like to be remembered in Pakistan for creating a country free of militancy. "I would love to be remembered for creating a Pakistan where militancy - I know it can't totally be diminished - is defeated," The Telegraph quoted Zardari, as saying.

June 24th, 2009 BRUSSELS - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that India is no longer a military threat to Pakistan, rather it is the Taliban which is threatening peace in the region as well as in the whole world. Talking to a private television channel ahead of the first summit between the European Union (EU) and Pakistan here, Zardari said both India and Pakistan do not have any ill-feelings against each other, and both the countries have good intentions.

June 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg finally broke the ice seven months after the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan's foreign office said Thursday, adding Islamabad wanted the resumption of the sub-continental dialogue process. "Finally the ice has been broken," Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said at his weekly media briefing here.

June 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will not visit Egypt for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit next month, his spokesman said, meaning that a planned meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will not take place. At the same time, the formulation is not correct to say that Zardari had cancelled the visit as he was avoiding Manmohan Singh in the wake of the Indian prime minister's blunt message during their meeting in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on Tuesday, presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar told the NDTV news channel.

June 17th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani media Wednesday prominently featured on their front pages the meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg but refrained from commenting editorially. The lack of editorials was not surprising given that Pakistani papers normally comment on an event two days after it occurs.

June 17th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has termed the meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Russia as positive but said no conditions should be laid down for resuming the sub-continental dialogue that New Delhi suspended in the wake of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. We are of the viewpoint that the negotiations should not be conditional as we cannot understand each other without negotiations so we expect to make dialogue result oriented and irreversible," Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit told a private TV channel Wednesday.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - The territory of Pakistan "should not be used for acts of terrorism against India", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday in their first meeting since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. The 40-minute meeting of the two leaders began here with Manmohan Singh telling Zardari that he was pleased to meet him but stressing in his opening remark that Pakistani territory "should not be used for acts of terrorism against India".

May 23rd, 2009 LAHORE - Hinting that the military offensive against the Taliban and other extremist groups could be expanded into other regions than the Swat Valley, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said the Taliban would be hunted down everywhere inside the country's geographical territory. In an interview to a private television channel, Zardari refuted media reports that quoted him as saying that the government is planning to carry out military operations in Waziristan after Swat.

May 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke called on President Asif Ali Zardari here on Wednesday. Zardari, Clinton and Holbrooke discussed the war on terror in a breakfast meeting that lasted for about an hour.

May 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said he is eager to start talks with India soon to establish peace between both the nations. Zardari, who is in Washington to take part in a trilateral summit with his US and Afghanistan counterparts, said he was waiting for the Indian general elections to get over so that peace initiatives could be resumed, which was disrupted after the heightened tension in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.