Washington, March 3 (Inditop.com) Stressing that both India and Pakistan have legitimate security interests in Afghanistan, the United States says it encouraged a dialogue between the two neighbours but has ruled out any mediation between them.
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India “are vastly different in culture, socio-economic standing, and political development, but they share a common strategic [...]
Jammu, Feb 27 (Inditop.com) Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed says he is “disappointed” that India and Pakistan did not discuss the Kashmir issue at the foreign secretary-level talks in New Delhi Thursday.
In a statement here Saturday, Sayeed said: “If we talk, we have to do it with clear objectives, a sense [...]
ISlamabad, Feb 27 (Inditop.com) Four people, including two policemen, were killed and 23 injured Saturday in a suicide attack on a police station in Pakistan’s restive North West Frontier Province, police said.
One of the two suicide bombers blew himself at the gate, killing a policeman, while the other attacker drove his explosive-laden pickup van into [...]
Riyadh, Feb 27 (Inditop.com) Security and counter-terrorism measures will get top priority during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Saudi Arabia, says India’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Talmiz Ahmad.
“This visit, taking place four years after the visit of (Saudi Arabia’s) King Abdullah (Bin Abdul Aziz) to India will give both sides an opportunity to discuss [...]
Islamabad, Feb 27 (Inditop.com) At least three people, including two policemen, were killed and 23 injured Saturday in a suicide attack at a police station in Pakistan’s restive North West Frontier Province, police said Saturday.
One of the two suicide bombers blew him up at the gate killing a policeman there, while another attacker drove his [...]
What the unpleasant aftermath of Thursday’s India-Pakistan talks showed was that cordiality cannot be forced. The trust deficit between the two countries is so high that a dialogue can only lead to more acrimony.
The reason why a tense, constrained atmosphere continues to characterise mutual relations is that some kind of watershed has been crossed in [...]
Islamabad, Feb 26 (DPA) A Pakistani court Friday blocked the possible deportation of a top Afghan Taliban leader recently detained in the country, a lawyer said.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, second only to the Taliban supreme chief Mullah Omar, was seized by Pakistani and American intelligence agents in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi earlier this month.
Islamabad [...]
New Delhi, Feb 26 (Inditop.com) Describing the foreign secretary-level talks as “an encouraging step”, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Friday told parliament that the future of bilateral dialogue with Pakistan will depend on Islamabad’s response to India’s “core concerns on terrorism” which remains undiluted.
“On Pakistan’s view that the composite dialogue between the two countries should [...]