Radio Pakistan wants India to spend more money on health and educationSeptember 19th, 2009 ABOHAR - Radio Pakistan in its recent Punjabi Darbar programme has suggested that India should spend less on defence and more on education and health. Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Human Resources Minister Kapil Sibal should thank the Punjabi Darbar programme of Radio Pakistan for its support to their causes.
Pak ready to help India to bring Mumbai attack perpetrators to justice : ZardariSeptember 17th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has reiterated that Islamabad is ready to cooperate with New Delhi to bring the Mumbai attack perpetrators to justice. In an interview with a British daily, Zardari said Pakistan would not allow its soil to be used against India.
India should trust Pakistan on 26/11 probe: ZardariSeptember 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.
Pakistan is epicentre of terror in the region: S.M. KrishnaSeptember 5th, 2009 BANGALORE - External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna attacked Pakistan on Saturday by calling it epicentre of terror in this region, and said it's for Islamabad to decide what kind of ties it wants with India.
Radio Pakistan harps on Kashmir, againAugust 29th, 2009 ABOHAR - The Punjabi Durbar programme of Radio Pakistan seems to have run out of ideas. In its latest programme, it has criticised Dr.
Talks with Pakistan only after it fulfils commitments: Preneet KaurAugust 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India will restart dialogue with Pakistan only if Islamabad fulfils its "commitments", Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur reiterated Wednesday. I think that we have never wavered from the stand that we have taken.
Pakistan Radio keen on propaganda 'victories', not solution of problemsJuly 28th, 2009 ABOHAR - India has time and again stated that Pakistan should stop allow its territory to be used by terrorists against India, before any serious dialogue could commence. Radio Pakistan seems to be worried that forces in Pakistan would continue their terrorist acts, and the possibility of an India-Pakistan dialogue would recede.
India, Pakistan delink terrorism from dialogueJuly 16th, 2009 Sharm-el-SHEIKH - India and Pakistan Thursday said that dialogue was only answer to promote better neighbourly relations and that terrorism should not be linked to their composite dialogue process. A joint statement issued after talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India and Yousaf Raza Gilani of Pakistan here also agreed that the two countries will share real time credible and actionable information on any future terrorist threat.
Talks with India unavoidable, says PakistanJune 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan seriously believes that composite dialogue is in the interest of both India and Pakistan, foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit said here Thursday. "Talks are unavoidable for durable peace and prosperity in the region," Basit said at a weekly press briefing.
Obama wants India, Pakistan to talk, but will not tell howJune 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama would like India and Pakistan to have a dialogue to resolve their differences, but the US cannot dictate how they should go about it or mediate in the process. "I believe that there are opportunities, maybe not starting with Kashmir but starting with other issues, that Pakistan and India can be in a dialogue together and over time to try to reduce tensions and find areas of common interest," Obama told Pakistan's Dawn group in an interview published Sunday.
Don't resume talks with Pakistan: Kashmiri PanditsJune 21st, 2009 JAMMU - A Kashmiri Pandit group, Panun Kashmir, has warned India against resuming talks with Pakistan under US pressure. "Linking improvement in situation in Pakistan or for that matter in Kashmir as a basis of Kashmir resolution is a suicidal move," said Ajay Charungoo, chairman of the Panun Kashmir, at a seminar here Sunday.
India to resume talks with Pakistan only if they dismantle terror infrastructureJune 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of External Affairs SM Krishna on Friday said India will resume dialogue with Pakistan only if they take concrete measures to prevent terrorist attacks. Talking to reporters here, Krishna said, "There will not be any talks between India and Pakistan unless they take concrete measures to prevent terrorist attacks emanating from Pakistan aimed against India.
Not many takers for Zardari's dialogue offerMay 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's latest overture to India to restart talks after the Lok Sabha elections does not have many takers. Strategic analysts say that New Delhi is unlikely to resume the stalled dialogue process with Islamabad in the near future, regardless of whether the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) or the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) forms the next government.
Dialogue with Pakistan linked to Mumbai attack: PMMay 9th, 2009 CHENNAI - India will resume its composite dialogue with Pakistan only when it books those responsible for the terrorist attack in Mumbai, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday. 'Our minimum demand is that Pakistan must take effective steps ...
Radio Pakistan allergic to Congress party, calls it anti-minorityMarch 14th, 2009 ABOHAR - While the Bharatiya Janata Party, the main Opposition party in Lok Sabha, blames the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre for 'dolling out' reservations and other benefits to minority section off and on, Radio Pakistan views the Congress as anti-minority. Radio Pakistan has blamed Congress party of being an anti-minority party, which was behind carrying out of Blue Star Operation against militants who had turned the Golden Temple into a fortress in 1984.