On this episode Cyrus Broacha also talks about Rehman Malik, Captain Kalia case and much more. ...
10:50 PM, Dec 23, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Monday gave its consent for a team of Indian legal experts to visit Islamabad this week to finalise the terms of reference for a Pakistani judicial commission that will go to Mumbai to gather evidence on the 2008 terror attacks on the financial hub. Pakistani officials said they had received a request from India for the visit by the delegation of legal experts on Wednesday...
11:35 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Islamabad: India and Pakistan have begun implementing a new liberal visa regime following the operationalisation of a bilateral visa agreement last week, officials said on Monday. The Indian High Commission in Islamabad and the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi have started implementing provisions of the new pact related to visitor visa, business visa and pilgrim visa. The new provisions cover the facility of entering and exiting from different immigration...
09:48 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed may be the key conspirator of the Mumbai terror attacks, but Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde referred to him in Parliament using honorifics like 'Mr' and 'Shri'. Shinde, during the course of a statement on the visit of Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik, addressed Saeed as 'Mr' and 'Shri' twice each. "Mr Rehman Malik, Interior Minister of Pakistan has been telling us repeatedly that...
06:43 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Gauging the Pakistani establishment's mood from the statements of Rehman Malik during his recently concluded India visit, Can New Delhi actually expect Islamabad to act on the 26/11 planners and to clamp down on terror? CNN-IBN's Senior Editor Suhasini Haidar joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. So all in all we are now supposed to play the Big Brother by ignoring all that Pakistan does in...
05:34 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday made a statement in the Rajya Sabha on Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik's visit to India after Opposition MPs demanded. Shinde in his statement said that he made it clear to Malik that Pakistan was yet to act against the 26/11 accused and that Hafiz Saeed was one the main perpetrators. "I made it clear that the main issue was bringing...
01:29 PM, Dec 17, 2012
The one thing that's common between the present Indian and Pakistani home ministers is that they're both wannabes who shoot off their mouths at the ...
10:45 AM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: Saying that extremism in Pakistan has its roots in jihad during the war between the then Soviet Union and Afghanistan, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday said his country had brought down the frequency of suicide bombings. At an interaction organised by Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, Malik said extremism in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region started "when we decided to take part in jihad" during the war...
04:41 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Rehman Malik's visit to India ended on a positive note with Pakistan welcoming the breakthrough in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast - a case which has always invited Pakistan's criticism to India from time to time. The man who allegedly planted the bombs on the train was arrested from Ujjain on Saturday evening. ...
09:53 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Islamabad: India has provided "insufficient information" against Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and Pakistan could take action only on the basis of evidence that stands the test of courts, Interior Minister Rehman Malik claimed on Sunday. Speaking to reporters at the airport in Rawalpindi on his return from a visit to India, Malik sought to clear the air on several controversies that erupted during his trip, including his remarks equating...
09:03 PM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi: India on Sunday reacted strongly to Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik statement that Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal was an operative of an elite Indian intelligence agency, saying it was a "ridiculous" remark. "Such a statement is ridiculous. Jundal was working with the LeT in Pakistan's soil when the Mumbai terror attack was carried out," Home Secretary RK Singh said. Singh was reacting to Malik's statement during the...
07:33 PM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday blamed Indian security agencies for their "failure" to prevent the Mumbai terror attack and alleged that Indian non-state actors were involved in the massacre. Malik also said had there been interaction between Pakistan and India and regular sharing of information, the 26/11 attack could have been prevented. He said Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley had conspired with al Qaeda terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri,...
07:09 PM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik is winding up his visit to India, but not before stirring up another controversy. Malik claimed Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Abu Jundal, who was allegedly present in the control room during the Mumbai attacks, is an Indian agent. "Abu Jundal's statement was taken in Saudi Arabia. In his own statement, Jundal says he is a criminal having been charged in many cases. He also worked...
01:42 PM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday that if Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does not visit his country, the people will be disappointed. Malik, who met Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Saturday and reminded him of the long-standing invitation to visit Pakistan, said people in Manmohan Singh's native Chakwal district in what is now Paksitani Punjab were eager to meet him. He said the Indian...
06:29 AM, Dec 16, 2012
The Pakistani minister pointed out that the delay was not precipitated by the government, but was due to the judicial process. ...
10:36 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi/Ahmedabad: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday discussed the alleged atrocities on Hindus in Pakistan and the slow progress of 26/11 cases with Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik. "I discussed the persecution of Hindus in Pakistan with the minister, including the recent flight of many Hindu families to India," Sushma Swaraj, Leader of Opposition in the Lower House of Parliament, told reporters after the meeting with...
10:20 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who is on a visit to India, on Saturday went for damage control, saying he was not trying to equate the Babri Masjid demolition with the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks during his interaction with mediapersons after his arrival in New Delhi. Speaking to CNN-IBN, the Pakistan minister pointed that he had also brought up Shia-Sunni issues in Pakistan as well as the 9/11...
09:20 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Facing criticism over the slow pace of 26/11 trial in Pakistan, Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said attempts were being made to "fast-track" the case and wanted India to give "hard" and "substantive" evidence for the arrest of mastermind Hafiz Saeed. Malik, who met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday, later said an application to fast track the case had been moved in the Lahore High Court...
08:22 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Prantij: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and the Congress party of "keeping the country in dark" over Sir Creek issue and slammed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for "lacking the guts" to take on "authoritative" Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik, who had created a flutter on Friday when he equated 26/11 Mumbai attacks to the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya....
06:36 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Clarifying his controversial remarks on Babri Masjid, visiting Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said he never compared the 26/11 attacks with the demolition. "I was simply talking about the ugly events such as Mumbai and so many others," Malik said in a press conference, after his meeting with Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. On Friday night, Malik had equated the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya...
03:13 PM, Dec 15, 2012
