Zardari likely to offer intelligence-sharing to India

September 23rd, 2009 NEW YORK - US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan under the Obama administration Richard Holbrooke and US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta separately called on Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in New York to discuss US-Pakistan cooperation in wide-ranging areas. Holbrooke and Zardari discussed measures to enhance bilateral cooperation in energy, social development and other sectors, The Nation reports.

September 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.

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 Ali Zardari, who has the backing of top military commanders for his goodwill gestures towards India, has said that the army is united in dealing with the threat emanating from militants and are no more worried about the Indian threat. In Pakistan civil leaders always operate in the shadow of the military, but Zardari appears to have backing of the army high command for some controversial stances, a report in The Telegraph states.

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 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is likely to suggest an intelligence-sharing mechanism between Islamabad and New Delhi to the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh during their first meeting after 26/11 in Russia. The Daily Times quoted Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, as saying that Dr.

May 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - As a new government took office in New Delhi, the United States expressed satisfaction at India and Pakistan sharing intelligence to show needed cooperation to ensure peace and stability in the region. "Obviously he's in the past few weeks have been very involved in our discussions with Pakistan" related to recent meetings in Washington," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday when asked how President Barack Obama wants to engage the two South Asian neighbours to reduce tensions between them.

May 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States wants both India and Pakistan to break the ice in their relationship, as it considers that cordial relations between both the countries is the key to establish peace and stability in the sub-continent. Addressing a regular press briefing here, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs, while referring to the reports about India and Pakistan sharing intelligence inputs with each other, said the step marks a positive shift in the otherwise hostile relationship between the two neighboring countries.

May 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - India and Pakistan have started sharing intelligence inputs regarding Islamic extremists amid continuous persuasion from the United States, a report in a leading US daily said. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) arranged for Pakistan and India to share information on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the outlawed accused of carrying out the Mumbai 26/11 attacks.

May 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari says he hopes to build better relations with India after its parliamentary elections and 'if our American friends can help us, they're welcome to.' 'I know they are busy at the moment. Democracies are always willing to work with democracies,' Zardari told reporters after a meeting Thursday with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee along with his Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

May 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Ahead of his much awaited meeting with US President Barack Obama, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has urged the United States to provide Predator drone aircrafts to Islamabad to enable it to counter the expanding terror threat in the country more effectively. "I need drones to be part of my arsenal.

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.

April 27th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that his country's intelligence believes that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead, but they have no proof to back their claims. "The Americans tell me they don't know, and they are much more equipped than us to trace him.

April 27th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani intelligence believes Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead, President Asif Ali Zardari said Monday, but also admitted that he did not have any evidence of this. 'The Americans tell me they don't know, and they are much more equipped than us to trace him.

March 29th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Late night calls from the United States and UK helped President Asif Ali Zardari to bring sanity to the troubled political proceedings in Pakistan during his address to the joint sitting of Parliament. Zardari portrayed himself as a hawk-turned-peacemaker on Saturday but the script is understood to have been handed over to him by the Americans and the British.