Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), Nov.30 (ANI): Malaysia’s freeze on the intake of Bangladeshi workers will stay despite a request from Dhaka for a review of the decision, said the country’s Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.
Najib conveyed this to his counterpart Sheikh Hasina Wajed during their talks on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads [...]
Port of Spain, Nov 28 (IANS) India Saturday reaffirmed its commitment to organising the best Commonwealth Games ever next year.
At the Sports Breakfast during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) here, Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi and Sindushree Khullar, secretary, sports ministry, outlined Delhi’s preparations for the Games.
Khullar gave a detailed presentation [...]
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) India cannot negotiate with Pakistan while having a gun pointed at its head, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said Saturday, reacting to Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi accusing India of being ‘myopic’.
In an interview telecast on CNN-IBN Saturday, Qureshi said that India was being narrow-minded in [...]
London, Nov.28 (ANI): Stressing on the need of cordial relations between India and Pakistan, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that substantial action by Islamabad against the Mumbai attack perpetrators is the key to deescalate tension between the two neighbours.
Brown said the 26/11 attacks soured the Indo-Pak relationship to a great extent, but expressed [...]
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) On the eve of the anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday said his country would ‘work shoulder to shoulder with India and our international partners, to confront this common threat’.
‘The attacks in Mumbai last year were an outrage. No one who watched the events [...]
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Days before the foreign ministers of the two countries are expected to meet in Trinidad on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), India Tuesday gave to Pakistan a seventh dossier that contains additional evidence linking Pakistan-based terrorists to the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
The dossier was handed over [...]
Port-of-Spain, Nov 13 (IANS) A cricket match that was planned during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) here Nov 27-29 has been scrapped, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Patrick Manning said.
The cricket match was scheduled to be played at the unfinished Brian Lara Stadium in south Trinidad, but it is no longer on the [...]
London, Nov.10 (ANI): The Commonwealth has made it clear that it would not interfere in issues concerning India and Pakistan, and that both the countries should resolve their differences mutually.
Addressing media persons during a press conference, Commonwealth Secretary General Kamlesh Sharma said the 53-member organisation hopes both Islamabad and New Delhi to settle their bilateral [...]
Islamabad, Sep 29 (IANS) There is a ’strong possibility’ of the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers meeting on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad in late November, a media report Tuesday said.
This would be a follow-up of the two-day talks between their foreign ministers and foreign secretaries in New [...]
New York, Sep.29 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh could meet his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the Commonwealth heads of government meeting scheduled to be held in November in Trinidad, sources said.
Highly placed diplomatic sources said there is a high possibility that both leaders could meet in Trinindad, The Dawn reports.
However, [...]
