Pakistan on Wednesday said the sequencing of upcoming Indo-Pak discussions on outstanding issues should not be intended at taking "unilateral advantage" or "scoring points", a day after India maintained that there will be sequencing of interactions on issues, including terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir and Siachen.
The eight Saarc countries have decided to exempt 19 categories of people from visa requirement and agreed to grant multi-entry visas for three to six months to select journalists, business persons and sportspersons without prior clearance.
Six months after failure of talks, India and Pakistan will make a fresh attempt to "unlock" the bilateral dialogue process when Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her counterpart Salman Bashir meet on Sunday during which the Indian side is expected to seek an update on 26/11 probe and trial.
Pak goes on offensive ahead of talksIn unusual comments at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) forum, Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed on Wednesday talked about strained relations between India and Pakistan, saying that he hoped that Thursday's meeting between the two countries' Prime Ministers will resolve their differences.
The US today said that it was just a "matter of working out modalities" before Indian investigators get access to Mumbai terror attack accused David Headley.
The Prime Ministers of nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan will hold talks on Thursday, the two sides said, their first meeting in nine months that is seen as another effort at improving frayed ties.
Notwithstanding India's insistence on action against Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, Pakistan today was non-committal on action against the mastermind of Mumbai attacks and several other terror strikes in India.
Following is the text of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's opening statement at the Sixteenth SAARC Summit:
Pitching for freer movement of goods, services and people across South Asia, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday warned the region that it faces the risk of “marginalisation and stagnation” if members fail to build SAARC as a group that is connected and empowered.
The talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani have changed the climate between the two countries, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in Thimphu today.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday invited his counterpart Manmohan Singh to visit Pakistan and the Indian leader responded by saying that he would love to.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today wrapped up his three-day visit to Bhutan which saw India and Pakistan agreeing to move ahead with the stalled peace talks.
Bhutan police can raid homes of smokers in a search for contraband tobacco and are training a special tobacco sniffer dog in a crackdown to honour a promise to become the world's first smoke-free nation.
Making a fresh attempt to restart the bilateral dialogue process, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir will meet on Sunday during which the Indian side is expected to seek an update on the Mumbai attacks investigations and trial.
India today rejected Pakistan's attempt to link Mumbai attacks to the Samjhauta Express blast, saying there was "no comparison" between the two incidents and rubbished the contention that the pace of probe into the cross-border train attack had been slow.