Pakistan India Peace Talks

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today ruled out any dialogue with Pakistan and asserted that the Narendra Modi government will wipe out terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir and make it the most peaceful place in the country.

After Mehbooba Mufti remarked that peace would be elusive in Kashmir until the centre holds dialogue with Pakistan and people of J&K, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said she could make such comments as BJP had given people like her strength

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Monday condoled the death of two policemen in a terror attack in Srinagar and asked the government to hold talks with Pakistan to find a way to bring peace in the region.

Strongly hitting out at Pakistan for again raking up the Kashmir issue at the UN, India has said a constructive contribution cannot be expected from a country that has an established practice of hosting terrorists.

A significant part of terror group Al Qaeda resides in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, including its chief Aiman al-Zawahiri, who is probably alive but too frail to be featured in propaganda, according to a United Nations report.

About 24 hours after military chiefs from India and Pakistan surprised the world last month with a rare joint commitment to respect a 2003 cease-fire agreement, the top diplomat of the United Arab Emirates popped over to New Delhi for a quick one-day visit.

Hitting out at Pakistan, India has said the country foments a "culture of violence" at home and across its borders and its "deplorable" human rights records and discriminatory treatment of religious minorities is a cause of "persistent concern" for the global community.

New Army chief General MM Naravane said today that the armed forces were focusing on "capability development" in connection with the border with China and expressed hope that maintaining peace and tranquillity there will help arrive at an "eventual solution".

India and Japan, in their inaugural foreign and defence ministerial dialogue on Saturday, discussed the threat posed to regional peace by terror networks operating from Pakistan and said the country needs to take "resolute and irreversible" action against them.

The onus for peace talks between India and Pakistan lies on Islamabad which has to take "sustained and irreversible actions" against terror groups, a senior US official has said, reiterating President Donald Trump's willingness to mediate on the Kashmir issue, only if asked by both the countries.

Jammu and Kashmir was once again raised by Pakistan during a discussion with its all-weather ally China on Wednesday. A joint statement released after Prime Minister Imran Khan's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Beijing, declared that the "Kashmir issue is a dispute left from history, and should be properly and peaceful...

US special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has arrived in Pakistan to discuss revival of the peace talks with the Pakistani leaders and a possible meeting with a Taliban delegation headed by the group's co-founder and chief peace negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.

India on Tuesday rejected the remarks of Pakistan and its all-weather ally China on Kashmir, where they contended that Kashmir is a "dispute left from history" and the issue should be "peacefully resolved based on the UN Charter, relevant UN Security Council resolutions and bilateral agreements."

Pakistan will no longer seek dialogue with India as it has repeatedly rebuffed peace overtures, Prime Minister Imran Khan said, a charge rejected by New Delhi which has repeatedly asked Islamabad to take "credible" action against terror groups to resume the talks.

Linking the situation in Kashmir with the ongoing peace efforts in Afghanistan is "reckless, unwarranted and irresponsible", a top Afghan diplomat has said, slamming her Pakistani counterpart.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today ruled out any dialogue with Pakistan and asserted that the Narendra Modi government will wipe out terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir and make it the most peaceful place in the country.

After Mehbooba Mufti remarked that peace would be elusive in Kashmir until the centre holds dialogue with Pakistan and people of J&K, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said she could make such comments as BJP had given people like her strength

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Monday condoled the death of two policemen in a terror attack in Srinagar and asked the government to hold talks with Pakistan to find a way to bring peace in the region.

Strongly hitting out at Pakistan for again raking up the Kashmir issue at the UN, India has said a constructive contribution cannot be expected from a country that has an established practice of hosting terrorists.

A significant part of terror group Al Qaeda resides in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, including its chief Aiman al-Zawahiri, who is probably alive but too frail to be featured in propaganda, according to a United Nations report.

About 24 hours after military chiefs from India and Pakistan surprised the world last month with a rare joint commitment to respect a 2003 cease-fire agreement, the top diplomat of the United Arab Emirates popped over to New Delhi for a quick one-day visit.

Hitting out at Pakistan, India has said the country foments a "culture of violence" at home and across its borders and its "deplorable" human rights records and discriminatory treatment of religious minorities is a cause of "persistent concern" for the global community.

New Army chief General MM Naravane said today that the armed forces were focusing on "capability development" in connection with the border with China and expressed hope that maintaining peace and tranquillity there will help arrive at an "eventual solution".

India and Japan, in their inaugural foreign and defence ministerial dialogue on Saturday, discussed the threat posed to regional peace by terror networks operating from Pakistan and said the country needs to take "resolute and irreversible" action against them.

The onus for peace talks between India and Pakistan lies on Islamabad which has to take "sustained and irreversible actions" against terror groups, a senior US official has said, reiterating President Donald Trump's willingness to mediate on the Kashmir issue, only if asked by both the countries.

Jammu and Kashmir was once again raised by Pakistan during a discussion with its all-weather ally China on Wednesday. A joint statement released after Prime Minister Imran Khan's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Beijing, declared that the "Kashmir issue is a dispute left from history, and should be properly and peaceful...

US special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has arrived in Pakistan to discuss revival of the peace talks with the Pakistani leaders and a possible meeting with a Taliban delegation headed by the group's co-founder and chief peace negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.

India on Tuesday rejected the remarks of Pakistan and its all-weather ally China on Kashmir, where they contended that Kashmir is a "dispute left from history" and the issue should be "peacefully resolved based on the UN Charter, relevant UN Security Council resolutions and bilateral agreements."

Pakistan will no longer seek dialogue with India as it has repeatedly rebuffed peace overtures, Prime Minister Imran Khan said, a charge rejected by New Delhi which has repeatedly asked Islamabad to take "credible" action against terror groups to resume the talks.

Linking the situation in Kashmir with the ongoing peace efforts in Afghanistan is "reckless, unwarranted and irresponsible", a top Afghan diplomat has said, slamming her Pakistani counterpart.