Zardari Wikileaks

In June 2009, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Russia on the sidelines of a six-nation summit. Their first meeting after 26/11. A few days later, Zardari told the then US National Security Advisor General James Jones that Singh was "an excellent economist but he's not convinced the Indian PM understood...

Pakistan's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani does not support President Asif Ali Zardari's "no-first-use" nuclear policy, according to a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.On February 19, 2009, just days ahead of General Kayani's week-long trip to America, Anne Patterson, who was the US ambassador to Pakistan wrote, "Although ...

Less than a month before the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is quoted in a US diplomatic cable as having reassured the US that he was "working on building 'regional ownership' of the extremism problem." NDTV is exclusively reporting on the Pakistan cables in collaboration with WikiLeaks. (Read: Full...

Pakistan's powerful Army had vetoed President Asif Ali Zardari's proposal to send ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha to New Delhi that came on British insistence to calm down tensions with India following the Mumbai terror attack, a secret US cable made public by WikiLeaks shows.The confidential document shows that the then British Foreign Secretary David...

Among a quarter million secret US documents released by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, 2,220 cables originate from the US embassy in Islamabad. While there are some surprises in these Islamabad cables, other bits confirm India's long standing fears about Pakistan - especially it's inability to act against terror groups. The then US amba...

Monday, 05 January 2009, 13:11S E C R E T ISLAMABAD 000024 EO 12958 DECL: 01/05/2034 TAGS PREL, PTER, PGOV, PK SUBJECT: ZARDARI COMMENTS ON INDIA/NAWAZ SHARIF Classified By: Anne W. Patterson, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).1. (S) Summary: President Zardari told the Ambassador January 2 he would have no choice but to respond militarily to an Indian attack...

In the tense post 26/11 scenario, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari had told the US that Islamabad would have no option but to respond militarily if India chose to launch an attack on its territory, secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show. (Read: Entire Cable on Zardari Comments on India)In a meeting with the then US Ambassador to ...

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari had informed the US ambassador to Pakistan that "he had instructed his son Bilawal to name his sister, Faryal Talpur, as president" in the eventuality of his assassination, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.According to the latest cache of WikiLeaks published by the British daily, Zardari has made extensive prep...

In June 2009, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Russia on the sidelines of a six-nation summit. Their first meeting after 26/11. A few days later, Zardari told the then US National Security Advisor General James Jones that Singh was "an excellent economist but he's not convinced the Indian PM understood...

Pakistan's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani does not support President Asif Ali Zardari's "no-first-use" nuclear policy, according to a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.On February 19, 2009, just days ahead of General Kayani's week-long trip to America, Anne Patterson, who was the US ambassador to Pakistan wrote, "Although ...

Less than a month before the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is quoted in a US diplomatic cable as having reassured the US that he was "working on building 'regional ownership' of the extremism problem." NDTV is exclusively reporting on the Pakistan cables in collaboration with WikiLeaks. (Read: Full...

Pakistan's powerful Army had vetoed President Asif Ali Zardari's proposal to send ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha to New Delhi that came on British insistence to calm down tensions with India following the Mumbai terror attack, a secret US cable made public by WikiLeaks shows.The confidential document shows that the then British Foreign Secretary David...

Among a quarter million secret US documents released by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, 2,220 cables originate from the US embassy in Islamabad. While there are some surprises in these Islamabad cables, other bits confirm India's long standing fears about Pakistan - especially it's inability to act against terror groups. The then US amba...

Monday, 05 January 2009, 13:11S E C R E T ISLAMABAD 000024 EO 12958 DECL: 01/05/2034 TAGS PREL, PTER, PGOV, PK SUBJECT: ZARDARI COMMENTS ON INDIA/NAWAZ SHARIF Classified By: Anne W. Patterson, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).1. (S) Summary: President Zardari told the Ambassador January 2 he would have no choice but to respond militarily to an Indian attack...

In the tense post 26/11 scenario, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari had told the US that Islamabad would have no option but to respond militarily if India chose to launch an attack on its territory, secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show. (Read: Entire Cable on Zardari Comments on India)In a meeting with the then US Ambassador to ...

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari had informed the US ambassador to Pakistan that "he had instructed his son Bilawal to name his sister, Faryal Talpur, as president" in the eventuality of his assassination, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.According to the latest cache of WikiLeaks published by the British daily, Zardari has made extensive prep...