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Pak back to singing ‘jaded’ UN resolutions-for-K-settlement tune

Islamabad, Nov.24 (ANI): Pakistan has once again raked up the issue of Kashmir, saying that it should be resolved in accordance with the United Nations resolutions of 1948 and 1949.

Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory and that the settlement of issues should be according to the aspirations of [...]

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India stalling sub-continental dialogue: Pakistan

Islamabad, Nov 23 (IANS) Accusing India of dragging its feet on the sub-continental dialogue process, Pakistan Monday said India was not serious on resuming the talks that have been stalled since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks that New Delhi blames on elements operating from this country.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told a private TV channel [...]

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Diaspora in US has changed image of India: PM

Washington, Nov 23 (IANS) Crediting the Indian diaspora with changing the image of India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has acknowledged the contribution of the over 2.5 million strong Indian community in America in building better ties with the US.

‘Our relations at the people-to-people level are of great significance,’ he said in an interview with CNN’s [...]

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India will not redraw borders in Kashmir: Manmohan Singh

New Delhi, Nov. 23 (ANI): Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has once again reiterated that as far he is concerned, there is no question of New Delhi redrawing the international boundary that separates Indian Kashmir and Pakistan Kashmir.

In an interview given to the Editor of Newsweek International, Fareed Zakaria, in CNN’s Global Public Square [...]

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India and China are not in competition: Manmohan Singh

Washington, Nov 23 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has reiterated that India and China are not in competition as there is enough economic space for the two Asian giants to realise the growth ambitions of their countries.

‘I think the rise of China has contributed handsomely to sustaining the growth momentum in the world economy,’ he [...]

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Pakistan army will never take on Afghan Taliban: Manmohan Singh

Washington, Nov 23 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed doubts that the Pakistan army will ever take on the Afghan Taliban terrorist elements that attack Afghans, Indians and Westerners as they want a Pakistani puppet regime in Kabul.

‘I sometimes fear that Pakistan’s objectives are not necessarily in harmony with the US objectives,’ in Afghanistan [...]

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I don’t know who to deal with in Pakistan: Manmohan Singh

Washington, Nov 23 (IANS) With power virtually resting with the army in Pakistan even in a democratic regime, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wonders ‘who to deal with’ or negotiate with in Islamabad.

‘I think the most important force in Pakistan is the army,’ he said in an interview with CNN’s ‘Fareed Zakaria GPS’ Sunday coinciding with [...]

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No fear of ties suffering under Obama: Manmohan Singh

Washington, Nov 23 (IANS) As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh began his state visit to the US, the first by any global leader under the Obama administration, he expressed confidence that India-US relationship would not suffer in any way under President Barack Obama.

‘I have no apprehension that our relations with the United States would in any [...]

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No apprehension about US viewing India differently: Manmohan Singh

New Delhi, Nov.22 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, has said that he does not have any apprehension about the United States viewing India differently because there has been a change of administration in Washington.

In an interview given to the Editor of Newsweek International, Fareed Zakaria, in CNN’s Global Public Square (GPS) program here [...]

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Pakistan has not done enough on the Mumbai terror attacks: Manmohan Singh

New Delhi, Nov.22 (ANI): Ahead of a key visit to the United States where he will be the first head of state or government to be received and feted by President Barack Obama since he took office in January 2009, Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has reiterated his unhappiness over Pakistan efforts in bringing [...]

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As far as Kashmir issue is concerned, India will not redraw borders: Singh

New Delhi, Nov. 22 (ANI): Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has reiterated that there is no question of New Delhi considering a proposal to redraw the international boundary that separates Indian Kashmir and Pakistan Kashmir.

In an interview given to the Editor of Newsweek International, Fareed Zakaria, in CNN’s Global Public Square (GPS) program here [...]

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I was sold to Lashkar by my father: Mumbai attacker Kasab

Washington, Nov 16 (IANS) Ajmal Amir Kasab, the sole surviving terrorist of the group of ten sent by the Pakistan based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba to attack Mumbai, says his father essentially sold him into the group.

Kasab, who was part of the pair that killed 50 and wounded more than 100 at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the [...]

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Indian influence at work in Afghan intelligence: Musharraf

Islamabad, Nov 9 (ANI): Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that Indian influence can be seen at work in the Afghan intelligence network, which routinely blames Pakistan for harbouring Afghan Taliban, who are actually based in and operate from Afghanistan.

“We have concrete evidence of Indian involvement,” he said in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria [...]

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No change in Pakistan’s attitude to terror: Tharoor

Washington, Oct 19 (IANS) India sees no change in Pakistan’s attitude towards jihadists, noting that Islamabad was yet to take credible action either to bring the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to justice or to dismantle the ‘infrastructure of terror’.

‘Now, this sort of thing does worry us. We want to see some really [...]

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