India-pak Relationship

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) played a role in bringing down the tension between India and Pakistan and getting their bilateral ties back to a "healthy functional relationship", Emirati ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba said.

President Donald Trump has indicated his readiness to meet Pakistan's new leadership, amidst the ongoing peace talks between the US and the Taliban facilitated by Islamabad to end the brutal war in Afghanistan, America's longest.

The US has told the new government in Pakistan that the nature and quality of their bilateral relationship would depend on actions taken by Islamabad against terrorist groups operating from its soil, a senior Trump administration official said Monday.

A group of former Indian diplomats, military veterans and academics travelled to Pakistan last weekend for "relationship talks" that form part of track II diplomacy between the two countries dating back to the 1991-92 "Neemrana Dialogue"

India and Pakistan need to pursue closer relationship with each other on the security front, the US has said.

President Mamnoon Hussain today accused India of "running away" from talks despite Pakistan's offer of joint-probe in the Pathankot terror attack, even as he raked up the Kashmir issue, calling it an "unfinished agenda of partition" and the main cause of regional tension.

Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit on Tuesday said India and Pakistan have a "long way to go" in normalising relationship but they cannot give up as they must work together to ensure peace and prosperity for posterity.

Calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surprise visit to Pakistan a "transformative moment" in the subcontinent, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said it has provided yet another opportunity to write a new chapter in the difficult Indo-Pak relationship and rejected Congress' criticism as "childish".

Providing it a swift strike capability along the border with Pakistan, the Indian Army on Sunday inducted its second BrahMos supersonic cruise missile regiment in the western sector.

In a forthright message to Pakistan, India said its posture of "compulsivehostility" will not help a "serious and sustained" dialogue between the two countries.     Noting that the country "walked the extra mile in reaching out" to its neighbours, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said, "We earnestly hope that our neighbour w...

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China praised Pakistan's efforts to combat terrorism and promised to further advance the two countries' strategic partnership and economic cooperation in a speech to the Parliament on Sunday.Mr. Wen's remarks came a day after China and Pakistan signed $15 billion worth of trade deals, bringing the total value of the agr...

It is crucial to improve the relationship between Pakistan and India, says NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) played a role in bringing down the tension between India and Pakistan and getting their bilateral ties back to a "healthy functional relationship", Emirati ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba said.

President Donald Trump has indicated his readiness to meet Pakistan's new leadership, amidst the ongoing peace talks between the US and the Taliban facilitated by Islamabad to end the brutal war in Afghanistan, America's longest.

The US has told the new government in Pakistan that the nature and quality of their bilateral relationship would depend on actions taken by Islamabad against terrorist groups operating from its soil, a senior Trump administration official said Monday.

A group of former Indian diplomats, military veterans and academics travelled to Pakistan last weekend for "relationship talks" that form part of track II diplomacy between the two countries dating back to the 1991-92 "Neemrana Dialogue"

India and Pakistan need to pursue closer relationship with each other on the security front, the US has said.

President Mamnoon Hussain today accused India of "running away" from talks despite Pakistan's offer of joint-probe in the Pathankot terror attack, even as he raked up the Kashmir issue, calling it an "unfinished agenda of partition" and the main cause of regional tension.

Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit on Tuesday said India and Pakistan have a "long way to go" in normalising relationship but they cannot give up as they must work together to ensure peace and prosperity for posterity.

Calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surprise visit to Pakistan a "transformative moment" in the subcontinent, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said it has provided yet another opportunity to write a new chapter in the difficult Indo-Pak relationship and rejected Congress' criticism as "childish".

Providing it a swift strike capability along the border with Pakistan, the Indian Army on Sunday inducted its second BrahMos supersonic cruise missile regiment in the western sector.

In a forthright message to Pakistan, India said its posture of "compulsivehostility" will not help a "serious and sustained" dialogue between the two countries.     Noting that the country "walked the extra mile in reaching out" to its neighbours, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said, "We earnestly hope that our neighbour w...

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China praised Pakistan's efforts to combat terrorism and promised to further advance the two countries' strategic partnership and economic cooperation in a speech to the Parliament on Sunday.Mr. Wen's remarks came a day after China and Pakistan signed $15 billion worth of trade deals, bringing the total value of the agr...

It is crucial to improve the relationship between Pakistan and India, says NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.