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ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan commission will soon proceed to India to interview and record statements of witnesses and officials related to the Mumbai attacks as New Delhi has accepted Islamabad's request in principle in this regard.
"We have received information from New Delhi through diplomatic channels that India has in principle accepted Pakistan's request for sending a commission there for the recording of statements of key witnesses and officials there looking into the Mumbai

BANGALORE: President Nicolas Sarkozy urged India on Saturday to support France's agenda of reforming the global monetary system during its presidency of the G20 and hinted a nuclear deal could be signed on his trip.
The French president started his four-day visit in the southern technology hub of Bangalore. He leads a delegation of 50 senior businessmen as well as top cabinet officials, including Economy Minister Christine Lagarde. He wants to push an ambitious agenda
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LONDON: Pakistan agreed to share information with India on the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, cables released by Wikileaks have revealed. The information is contained in a 2009 cable from US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson as sent to Washington.
The agreement followed a secret agreement brokered by the US, and came barely a month after the attacks, BBC reported on Saturday. The cables also warns the Lashkar-e-Toiba militant group which carried out the Mumbai attack, could 'act'

NEW DELHI: The Indian government is seeking to more than double the compensation paid by a US chemical company for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster to 1.1 billion dollars, a government lawyer said Friday.
The lawyer from the attorney general's office said the government had filed a case in the Supreme Court demanding compensation of 50 billion rupees (1.1 billion dollars).
Last year, the government said it would look into how to retroactively increase the amount of compensation

NEW DELHI: "I don't plan to come to India ever again," former president Pervez Musharraf said on Friday after the Indian government denied him a visa. Musharraf said he did not "believe it was because New Delhi believed he was the main person behind Kargil".
He also asks why was he reassured time and again that he would get a visa before the denial came. "I have no words to explain my disappointment," Musharraf told The Indian Express over telephone from his home in Dubai. "I

PARIS: President Nicolas Sarkozy heads to India on Saturday to try to sell French fighter jets and nuclear technology to the Asian giant while his pop star wife Carla Bruni pursues her AIDS charity work.
Sarkozy is taking seven ministers and a bevy of French industrialists along on the four-day trip, his first visit to a G20 state since France took the presidency of the group of developed and major developing economic powers. It shows France's "recognition" of India's position as

NEW DELHI: The new secret diplomatic cables exposed by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks revealed that the US was not happy with India's response to Pakistan over 2001 parliament attack.
The 3,038 cables sent from the US embassy in New Delhi to Washington have exposed that India was not willing to attack Pakistan even after 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The cables sent from the US embassy said India commenced 'Cold Start', a military doctrine developed by Armed Forces, which

ISLAMABAD: WikiLeaks revealed two different approaches in Pakistan suspecting each other over resumption of talks with India with President Asif Ali Zardari believing that it took a lot to change the mindset in the military establishment and Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani thinking that the president was an obstacle in the way to start back channel diplomacy.
One cable written by former US ambassador Anne W Patterson after a meeting between US national security Adviser

NEW DELHI: India has denied a visa to former president Pervez Musharraf on grounds he was responsible for a conflict that nearly erupted into war between the neighbours, media reports said on Wednesday.
The former president was invited to India by private organisations to attend seminars and meet the media. An Indian Home Ministry official told AFP that Musharraf's visa application had been denied, without elaborating on the reason.
The official also said that the External

LAHORE: Pakistan Hockey Federation is seeking permission from the government to organise the Pakistan and India hockey test series at the neutral venue of Dubai.
According to an official of the PHF, the board has gotten clearance from the Sports Minister, Interior Ministry and Foreign Ministry to go head on with India in the field of hockey. He further stated that the Indian Hockey Federation would also go through the same routine after showing its willingness to play against

GUWAHATI: A century from Virat Kohli helped India secure a convincing 40-run victory in the first one-day international against New Zealand on Sunday. India's total of 276 looked enough, and New Zealand were out of contention at 169 for 8 after 36 overs before a quick ninth-wicket partnership of 67 between Nathan McCullum and Kyle Mills offered them a glimmer of hope.
But McCullum's dismissal in the 45th over allowed India to bowl the tourists out for 236 and finish as easy

GUANGZHOU: Pakistan reopened old wounds with India on Friday by insisting their bitter rivals were wrong to snub the Asian Games by refusing to send a cricket team.
Pakistan coach Sadiq Mohammad insisted that more pressure should have been put on India to respect the Guangzhou tournament, the first time the sport has featured at the Asiad. "India said they would come and they said cricket should be in the Asian Games.
God knows why they are not here. Somebody should have

NEW DELHI: India's veteran finance minister admitted on Thursday that the government did not know how to resolve a stand-off with the opposition over a telecom scandal that has paralysed the national parliament.
The lower and upper houses of the national assembly were adjourned for a 10th day as the opposition stormed the floor of both houses, shouting slogans and refusing to let anyone speak.
The protesters, led by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are calling

RAIPUR: Police in central India reported a second case of suspected child sacrifice on Thursday, casting a spotlight on witchcraft and occult beliefs that persist in some impoverished areas.
Police in the central state of Chhattisgarh said they had arrested 11 people including a "witchdoctor" and his wife after the body of a two-year-old boy was discovered in their house on Wednesday. Further searches of the property in the industrial town of Bhilai, about 45 kilometres (30

NEW DELHI: India successfully tested an upgraded version of its most powerful nuclear-capable missile on Thursday during an army training exercise, a Defence Ministry official said.
Pakistan and India regularly test missiles, and normally give each other advance notice for long-range launches. Islamabad was informed ahead of Thursday's test as part of "standard practice", ministry spokesman Sitanshu Kar said.
The upgraded Agni I - with a 435-mile range - was fired from a

LAHORE: Cordial ties between India and Pakistan are integral to the strength of South Asia as a whole and the promotion of economic development and trade. However, greater effort must be placed upon tackling disputes which have been at the root of the region's poor economic performance for decades.
This was stated by SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) former President Tariq Sayeed at the "Conference on Indo-Pakistan Economic Cooperation: Challenges and Prospects" held

NEW DELHI: Demanding redressal of its concerns over cross-border terrorism in an "effective and transparent" manner, India on Wednesday said it was necessary for a "comprehensive, serious and sustained" dialogue between India and Pakistan.
It also expressed willingness to look at existing bilateral visa agreement that was signed in 1974 to facilitate travel by bonafide businessmen from both the countries amid complaints by a Pakistani industry body that tough visa norms in India