US asks Pak to ‘absolutely stop’ cross-border terrorism in India

September 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has once again urged India to share evidence regarding its claims that certain Pakistani terror groups are planning to carry out attacks across India once again. "We have repeatedly requested the Indian government to share with us whatever information it has in this regard, The Daily Times quoted a Foreign Office spokesman, as saying.

August 2nd, 2009 LAHORE - Applauding the Indo-Pak joint statement at Sharm-el-Sheikh, noted Pakistani journalist, Najam Sethi, has said that both countries had agreed to push the issues of Kashmir and cross-border terrorism to the back burner to rekindle the bilateral peace process. In an interview with a private television channel, Sethi, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Times, said it was very important to shift the long pending issues to the back channels in order to achieve progress in the bilateral dialogue.

July 16th, 2009 Sharm el-SHEIKH - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet and discuss the nature of dialogue between the two countries in the future and will review action against terrorism. Manmohan Singh also made it clear that another Mumbai-like terrorist attack will affect dialogue of any kind.

June 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has ruled out any possibility of shifting its troops from the eastern Indian border to the western border with Afghanistan. Addressing a joint press conference with the ISPR spokesman Major General Athar Abbas here, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said Pakistan will not remove its military from the Indian border and deploy it along the western border with Afghanistan.

June 29th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh has sought British help for its land border management and maritime security as part of a string of joint working groups it seeks to set up within the South Asian region and outside with the US, Australia and Russia. The first such Joint Working Group (JWG) was set up with Britain Sunday to enhance counter terrorism cooperation between the two countries.

June 17th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, is on his way home after attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the BRIC, summits. The three day visit, Singh's first foreign tour after coming back to power at the centre was used by him to project India's views on global melt down, terrorism, extremist ideologies, and cross border drug trafficking.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATARINBURG - That India and Pakistan are unlikely to kick start the suspended composite dialogue process any time soon, came out loud and clear at the start of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit that began here on Tuesday. During the opening address of the summit host - Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, visiting Indian Prime Minister Dr.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Leaders of India and Pakistan Tuesday asked their foreign secretaries to meet within a month with the sole agenda of reviewing the primary issue of cross- border terrorism that has plagued their ties. This was decided during the 40-minute talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari -- most of it alone -- their first since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will meet Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit build here today.

June 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In what may be seen as a major concession to Pakistan, the US House of Representatives has dropped demands of access to the disgraced nuclear scientist Dr A.Q. Khan and preventing terrorist attacks against India as conditions from the aid bill offering Islamabad 1.5 billion dollars for the next five years.

June 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has said that it would not shift its forces from the Indian border to the western border along Afghanistan. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that it is impossible for Islamabad to reduce the number of troops from the Indian border, and the international community especially the western countries are aware of the fact.

May 8th, 2009 LAHORE - The United States has said it would ensure that the millions of dollars of aid, which it would be providing to Pakistan over a period of time, does not end up being used against India through cross-border terrorism. A US State Department spokesperson said Washington would make sure that the aid be utilized only for the purpose it is being given to Islamabad, and certainly not for fuelling militancy against India.

April 24th, 2009 WARSAW - India and Poland have renewed their commitment and determination to fight the menace of terrorism. In a statement issued here on the second day of her three-day visit to Poland, India's President Pratibha Devisingh Patil said that during her meeting with Polish President Lech Kaczyuski, both agreed that their countries had suffered at the hands of the Taliban and al Qaeda.

April 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US government has urged India to support Pakistan in its war against Al Qaeda and Taliban insurgents along the Afghan border, a media report said Tuesday. 'I think it will be important for India to make clear that as Pakistan takes steps to deal with extremists on its own territory, India will be supportive,' the Press TV quoted Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg as saying Monday.

February 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi has assured the US that his country will work with Washington to fight terrorism. Qureshi met US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday as part of a series of meetings this week in Washington, and as the US is engaged in a strategic review of the situation in Afghanistan and cross border raids from Pakistan.