
New Delhi: The Home Secretaries of India and Pakistan will hold bilateral talks on May 24 and 25 in Islamabad during which a liberalised visa regime for the two countries is expected to be approved apart from New Delhi pressing for action against perpetrators of 26/11 attack. During the parleys, which were being held after a delay of five months, a decision on issuance of multiple-entry and reporting-free visas for...

06:30 PM, May 07, 2012

New Delhi: Goshtaba and dosas, some bilateral talks and an emotional visit to the Ajmer sharif, that basically sums up Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to India. While Pakistan's head of state claimed it was purely a private visit, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did raise the issue of Hafiz Saeed and the 26/11 trial. Singh and Zardari seemed to strike all the right notes as they met for a...

07:51 PM, Apr 08, 2012

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday insisted that Pakistan should act on 26/11 suspects including Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed. Linking the progress in bilateral ties to Pakistan taking action against Saeed and others responsible for Mumbai terror attacks, Singh plainly told Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari that this was important for normalisation of relations between the two neighbours. Zardari, who made a stopover in the capital for little...

06:36 PM, Apr 08, 2012

New Delhi: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh emerged from a meeting at the latter's residence on Sunday afternoon. Issuing a brief joint statement, Singh said, "Have lot of issues., willing to find pragmatic solutions." Singh said they had 'constructive talks', and the two sides were "willing to find practical, pragmatic solutions on all issues." He said it was a "common wish that ties should normalise...

02:19 PM, Apr 08, 2012

Addu (Maldives): Recent measures to normalise trade between India and Pakistan are encouraging signs towards the realisation of a 'new silk road' connecting south and central Asia, a US official said on Friday. Robert O Blake the Assistant Secretary of State for Southern and Central Asian Affairs said that the concept of making Afghanistan a hub of economic activity will provide an 'alternative to insecurity and extremism'. Blake was speaking...

08:18 AM, Nov 12, 2011

Moscow: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will pay an official visit to India on December 20-22, the Kremlin announced on Thursday. During his New Delhi stay Medvedev will meet with President Pratibha Patil and hold annual summit talks with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on the whole range of bilateral and international issues of mutual interest. During the then President Vladimir Putin's India visit in October 2000, New Delhi and Moscow...

09:25 PM, Dec 16, 2010

New York: External Affairs Minister S M Krishna ran into his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi in New York Monday evening. The two leaders shook hands and exchanged pleasantries. This was their second interaction in the last five days. The two crossed paths in the parking lot of the UN headquarters on Thursday since the controversial joint press conference in Islamabad in July when Qureshi had accused Krishna of being...

09:28 AM, Sep 28, 2010

Confronted with evidence obtained from Headley, Pak Interior Minister does a U-turn in an exclusive interview. ...

07:57 PM, Jun 28, 2010

India's Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao began delegation-level talks with her Pak counterpart on bilateral issues. ...

04:02 PM, Jun 24, 2010

Ahead of the talks to reduce "trust deficit", India advocates a "creative solution" to the Kashmir issue. ...

09:50 PM, Jun 14, 2010

Gilani raked up the issue while speaking at an iftar party for Kashmiri leaders. ...

07:57 AM, Sep 20, 2009

The former ambassador called for policy dialogues between US, India. ...

06:31 PM, May 05, 2009

Indian and US negotiators burnt the midnight oil on Friday to overcome the difference on 123 agreement. ...

01:15 PM, Jun 02, 2007

Technical issues dominated the bilateral talks between India and US on the 123 Agreement for a second day on Friday. ...

09:25 AM, Jun 02, 2007

Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and US Undersecretary Nicholas Burns will begin delegation level talks on Friday. ...

02:00 PM, Jun 01, 2007